Microsoft is bringing AI to the healthcare industry through the TRAIN initiative

Microsoft said 2024 is the year of a new AI era with the release of the Copilot key, and the Redmond-based tech giant is keeping that promise up by announcing the new TRAIN initiative: Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network that aims to bring AI to every healthcare facility.

In a press release, Microsoft says TRAIN will see the deployment of safe and responsible AI in healthcare organizations to improve the quality, safety, and trustworthiness of AI in health. TRAIN sees the partnership of dozens of healthcare organizations across the US, including:

• AdventHealth
• Advocate Health
• Boston Children’s Hospital
• Cleveland Clinic
• Duke Health
• Johns Hopkins Medicine
• Mass General Brigham
• MedStar Health
• Mercy
• Mount Sinai Health System
• Northwestern Medicine
• Providence
• Sharp HealthCare
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center

The Redmond-based tech giant says that the network also includes partnerships with OCHIN, and TruBridge, two organizations that deal with medical technology, and community healthcare, assuring that every individual, regardless of income and resources, has access to the TRAIN technologies.

When it comes to AI’s tremendous capabilities, there is no doubt the technology has the potential to transform healthcare. However, the processes for implementing the technology responsibly are just as vital. By working together, TRAIN members aim to establish best practices for operationalizing responsible AI, helping improve patient outcomes and safety while fostering trust in healthcare AI.

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AI in healthcare. What should people expect from TRAIN? Well, according to Microsoft, TRAIN members will work together to improve and quality of AI, and emphasize its adoption in the healthcare industry, by:

• Sharing best practices related to the use of AI in healthcare settings, including the safety, reliability, and monitoring of AI algorithms, and the skillsets required to manage AI responsibly. Data and AI algorithms will not be shared between member organizations or with third parties.
• Enabling registration of AI used for clinical care or clinical operations through a secure online portal.
• Providing tools to enable measurement of outcomes associated with the implementation of AI, including best practices for studying the efficacy and value of AI methods in healthcare settings and leveraging privacy-preserving environments, with considerations in both pre-and post-deployment settings. Tools that allow analyses to be performed in subpopulations to assess bias will also be provided.
• Facilitating the development of a federated national AI outcomes registry for organizations to share among themselves. The registry will capture real-world outcomes related to the efficacy, safety, and optimization of AI algorithms.

You can read all about the new TRAIN initiative from Microsoft here.