Within 5 years, all Mount Sinai IT systems will contain some AI

That's according to the health system's CMIO and interim chief digital and information officer, who offers an overview of how – and where – he sees artificial intelligence and automation having the most potential.

(Editor's Note: This is part two of two of this interview. To read part one, click here.)

Dr. Bruce Darrow, chief medical information officer and interim chief digital and information officer at New York's Mount Sinai Health System offered some thoughts this week about why artificial intelligence is having such a big moment in healthcare and how AI may one day be taking some (emphasis on "some") cases away from doctors.

In this Q&A, Darrow offers a closer look at how Mount Sinai is using AI – and how it plans to expand its use. He discusses how long the health system has been using AI for clinical care, what principles its clinical and IT leaders follow when considering clinical AI use cases and the AI deployments Mount Sinai has in place today. In the video accompanying this article, Darrow also describes what determines whether an AI initiative at Mount Sinai is likely to succeed.

Q. How long has Mount Sinai been using AI for clinical care, and where has the health system been using it?

A. You might think the use of AI is a more recent development. It depends on where you draw the line and where you make the definition.

We've been using algorithmic care and ways to use computer-based decision support for many, many years. The first real application of AI was back in 2013. It's been more than 10 years at Mount Sinai, where at that point, the first use case we reported or published on was using AI algorithms to find patients in the hospital who were likely to get very sick before they got to that point and their outcomes were worse.

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