SMCI Lecture: Meet the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team (HEA3RT). Leveraging Quality Improvement, Design Thinking, and Simulation when Studying and Implementing Health AI Technologies

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Meet the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team (HEA₃RT). Leveraging quality improvement, design thinking, and simulation when studying and implementing health AI technologies.

If you consider the world of drug discovery many decades ago, there was an enormous gap between scientists in the lab making breakthrough discoveries and the physicians at the frontlines treating patients at the bedside. It was not until the concept of translational research came about that we were finally able to realize the potential of those lifesaving discoveries by moving them from bench to bedside. The exact same problem is happening in healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) today, inspiring the development of the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team (HEA₃RT) in the Department of Medicine. HEA₃RT’s mission is to bring cutting-edge AI technologies from code to bedside in support of the Quadruple Aim.

Recognizing that current approaches and traditional research methods often do not support successful AI implementation in healthcare, the HEA₃RT team has designed a repeatable mixed-methods approach leveraging quality improvement and design thinking that facilitates uptake of AI technologies into human-driven healthcare processes. An important step in translating technologies from code to bedside is the ability to simulate and iterate quickly, leading to the development of the HEA₃RT Simulation Lab. The simulation lab serves as a unique venue where faculty, students, and engineers can be more easily involved in the process of developing AI technologies and the workflows surrounding those technologies.

This talk will discuss leveraging quality improvement, design thinking, and simulation when studying and implementing health AI technologies, present examples of real world projects partnering with technology companies, and pathways toward future growth of AI in healthcare.

About:
Margaret Smith is the Director of Operations of the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team (HEA₃RT) where she works with industry partners, and clinical and operational leaders at Stanford on the application, development, and implementation of artificial intelligence technologies. Her expertise lies in healthcare quality improvement, complex problem solving, facilitating cross discipline collaboration, and design thinking. Her passion is building applying collaborative mix-method approaches developing, integrating, and studying technology solutions in healthcare that work for providers and patients rather than impede care delivery.

Previously, she held senior positions in quality improvement for many years in academic and non-academic medicine garnering extensive experience in a broad set of organizational and incentive structures.

Margaret holds a bachelor’s degree finance and risk management, a master’s in business administration with a specialization in healthcare management from the Baylor Hankamer School of Business, Robbins Institute for Health Policy and Leadership, and a Lean Six-Sigma master black belt certification.

Dr. Lin is the Executive Director of the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team (HEA₃RT). He is an expert clinician, researcher, educator, and health system leader in the specialty of family medicine. Dr. Lin earned his MD from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed his medical training at Stanford’s family medicine residency program at O’Connor Hospital. He has received numerous national awards and is recognized among the top family physicians in the United States.

Dr. Lin is the Service Chief for Family Medicine at Stanford Health Care. Dr. Lin has a particular interest in preventive cardiology, diabetes, viral hepatitis, and mental health. He is proficient in a wide range of primary care procedures – including over 40 different skin, musculoskeletal, and women’s health procedures that are performed in the office.

Dr. Lin is the author of over 250 scholarly works and conference presentations. He is the Vice Chief for Technology Innovation in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford. Dr. Lin’s current focus is on artificial intelligence in healthcare. He is a consultant and mentor to technology companies in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.