New "AI Doctor" Predicts Hospital Readmission and Other Health Outcomes
NEW YORK, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- An artificial intelligence (AI) computer program can read physicians' notes to accurately estimate patients' risk of death, length of hospital stay, and other factors important to care. Designed by a team led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the tool is currently in use in its affiliated hospitals to predict the chances that a patient who is discharged will be readmitted within a month.
- Experts have long explored computer algorithms meant to improve healthcare, with some having been shown to make valuable clinical predictions.
- "Since NYUTron reads information taken directly from the electronic health record, its predictive models can be easily built and quickly implemented through the healthcare system."
- The terms and conditions of these arrangements are being managed in accordance with the policies and practices of NYU Langone Health.
- Other study authors included Nima Pour Nejatian, PhD, MBA, at nVidia in Santa Clara, Calif., whose computer hardware was used to build NYUTron.