Health AI Championship first-prize winner (third from left) Ramesh Batra, MBBS, surgical director, Yale New Haven Transplantation Center Liver Transplant Program, and associate professor of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, was joined by (l-r): Christopher O’Connor, YNHHS CEO; Lee Schwamm, MD, YNHHS chief digital health officer; and Adam Landman, MD, chief information officer, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
On May 27, Yale New Haven Health’s Center for Health Care Innovation hosted the first Health AI Championship, a competition designed to showcase groundbreaking applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care.
Innovators from health systems and hospitals across Connecticut were invited to develop AI-driven solutions that address critical challenges in patient care and healthcare operations.
The event fostered collaboration and paved the way for real-world applications that can significantly improve patient outcomes and streamline healthcare operations, said Lee Schwamm, MD, senior vice president and chief digital health officer, YNHHS, and associate dean, Digital Strategy and Transformation, Yale School of Medicine.
“This collaboration comes at the perfect time when AI’s potential to revolutionize health care has never been greater,” he said.
The championship was guided by an advisory group of clinical and operational leaders from YNHHS, Hartford HealthCare, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Nuvance Health, UConn Health and Gaylord Specialty Healthcare.
An independent panel of judges narrowed 54 applications to 12 finalists teams. Each team presented its idea to a panel of expert judges comprised of strategic investors and industry experts from BioCT, Define Ventures, Elm Street Ventures, LRVHealth, Microsoft and Mass General Brigham. The expert panel chose these winners.
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First prize:
- Deep Machine Learning Model for Prediction of Death in Organ Donation after Circulatory Death. (Ramesh Batra, MBBS, Smita Krishnaswamy, PhD): Home institution: Yale University
Second prize:
- Ensight-AI (Rohan Khera, MD, Philip Kroon, MD, Evan Oikonomou, MD): Home institution: Yale University
- Polaris (Richa Sharma, MD, Kevin Sheth, MD, Ho-Joon Lee, PhD): Home institution: Yale University
Third prize:
- Use of AI, Computer Simulation & Mathematical Optimization for Optimizing ED Resource Allocation (Tze Chiam, PhD, Ahmed Gailan Qasem, Sarah Visker, RN, John Brancato, MD): Home institution: Connecticut Children’s Hospital
- Detection and Localization of Subdural Hematoma with Subsequent Recurrence Prediction using AI (Tapan Mehta, MD, Bernard Burman, Rohan Kumar, Vasiliki Stoumpou, Dimitris Bertsimas, PhD): Home institution: Hartford HealthCare
- AI-Enabled Multi-Class Diagnosis of Ejection Fraction from Electrocardiograms (Steven Zweibel, MD, Catherine Ning, Dimitri Bertsimas, PhD): This team also received the Audience Choice Award. Home institution: Hartford HealthCare
