Creating Communities of Innovation in Healthcare

Barbara Rapchak, BS, Vice President Academic Innovation, Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc., Frank Naeymi-Rad, PhD, MS, MBA. Founder, Chairman of the Board, Intelligent Medical Objects, Yuri Quintana, Director of Global Health Informatics, Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Charles Safran MD MS FACMI, Fellowship Director, Professor of Medicine, Chief

Keywords: health informatics, collaboration platform, communities of practice, analytics, cloud-based, social learning, crowdsourcing

TL;DR: AI2.world is a collaboration platform and accelerator for health informatics innovation designed to create communities of innovation and facilitate sharing of solutions and applications.

Abstract:

AI2 is an accelerator for health informatics innovation. We work with academic centers and industry partners to create communities of innovation, along with industry-academia partnerships in order to accelerate the adoption of informatics innovation. We do this at a physical campus consisting of an accelerator lab and “living lab” with real-world clinical space designed for modeling the clinics of future, and at a virtual campus at AI2.world, which facilitates the sharing of solutions and applications. Our collaborations focus on patient care, engagement, and outcomes. This poster presentation describes the creation and launch of this initiative, focusing on the AI2.world collaboration.

Today, healthcare data comes from many sources beyond the electronic health record, including fitness and personal health devices, social media, and genomics sources. This wealth of data is rich with opportunities for innovation, but often requires a wide range of domain expertise to be used effectively. Collaboration and validation are more important than ever.

AI2.world facilitates collaboration and validation by providing online access to tools and technologies, datasets, and domain expertise to collaborators who cannot readily visit the physical campus. We are creating a cloud-based model and platform for informatics services and analytics that can be used for research and development of new patient care technologies. At the same time, we are creating a community of innovators from academic centers, healthcare institutions, and industry partners, using a social learning model and crowdsourcing.

Social learning and crowdsourcing approaches will be important in training future employees as new skills will be required, driven by advances in informatics, analytics, NLP, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. For this reason, AI2.world was built using the Alicanto™ social learning platform developed at the Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

The platform includes support for a multimedia library that can accommodate video from multiple sources, images and animations, documents, interactive medical calculators, and can integrate with LTI-compliant online learning tools. The site also supports self-paced online courses incorporating materials from the site library and quizzes with multiple choice, true/false and other question types. Public and private groups can be created by community members, with document sharing, threaded discussions and video chat.

The goal of AI2 is to help innovators turn health data into information, insight, and innovation quickly and efficiently. It will be a community of practice that facilitates both learning and global multidisciplinary communication on how to implement best practices in informatics and artificial intelligence in healthcare. We have only begun to understand the opportunities in healthcare, research, and industry. AI2.world is a platform for exponential thinking in this expanding universe.

Submission Type: poster