Wednesday, October 9, 2024

MeriTalk: NIH Investing $130M Into AI and Data Tools for Medical Research

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be investing $130 million over the next four years to spread the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in behavioral and biomedical research, the agency said on September 13.

The funding is part of the Bridge2AI program which aims to bring in people from diverse technical backgrounds to employ AI to generate detailed data to answer some of the most challenging medical issues…

“In order to harness the power of AI for biomedical discovery and accelerate its use, scientists first need well-described and ethically created data sets, standards, and best practices for generating biomedical and behavioral data that is ready for AI analyses,” [the agency] said… Read the full article here.

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Jackie Gilbert is a Content Analyst for FedHealthIT and Author of 'Anything but COVID-19' on the Daily Take Newsletter for G2Xchange Health and FedCiv.

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