Windreich Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize every aspect of our lives, from transportation to entertainment and from manufacturing to education. Arguably one of the most important areas that will be transformed is health care, enabling us to more quickly and accurately develop diagnoses, expedite drug discovery, and take better and more personalized care of our patients. The Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is the foremost department of its kind within a medical school, thus enhancing opportunities for partnerships among medical and computer scientists. Mount Sinai brings to this effort a long tradition as a pioneer and trailblazer in digital health, starting with the earliest adoption of electronic health care records in the 1980s. Our mission is to create an AI “Intelligent fabric” that will infuse machine-learning and AI-driven decision-making throughout the Mount Sinai Health System’s eight hospitals and more than 400 ambulatory clinics. This intelligent fabric will make available the tools and techniques of artificial intelligence to all Mount Sinai researchers and physicians, facilitating both emergency reactions and long-term strategic decisions. In addition, our Department will train the next generation of health care computer scientists and develop relationships to expand the Department’s reach. We believe that innovation and technology are key to improving health care for everyone. And we will be housed in a new facility located at the center of our main campus on New York City's Upper East Side, which will contain high-performance computing and cloud computing database capabilities.