Virginia Tech and Children’s National create pediatric AI innovation hub to speed research and care

If you look just at the publications that come out in AI for kids, they represent just a very small fraction of what's happening in general AI for healthcare, and we know that what is developed for adults doesn't always work for kids. So we need to do something very focused on our population, and we need to grow the resources in AI, computational, and science. And this is why the collaboration with Virginia Tech is quite key. This experience is almost like a matchmaking. We are trying to find interesting problems. We're trying to find interesting algorithms. We're trying to create partnerships between Children's Hospital and Virginia Tech. You are bringing together basic scientists, computational scientists, clinicians, and other researchers in the field together, which, from a Children's National perspective, is going to ultimately improve the lives of the children we serve. We're on the verge of a transformation in how we approach research in the health sciences and delivery of health care with respect to how we handle data using artificial intelligence and the powerful analytical tools available through that. And this partnership between Virginia Tech and Children's National Hospital, or Sanghani Center here, I think represents the very tip of the spear of the most exciting things that are out there now in health care.

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The new pediatric health AI innovation hub brings together clinicians, researchers, and data scientists to speed the development of artificial intelligence technologies designed specifically for children.