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Boston Children’s deploys AI to unlock new diagnoses
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Boston Children’s treats AI as infrastructure to cut costs, expand capacity and diagnose cases once thought impossible.
Key facts
- Boston Children’s Hospital is one of the largest pediatric institutions in the world, serving patients across more than 40 specialties with close to 1 million outpatient visits each year
- The problem isn’t effort,” says John Brownstein, Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children’s
- Because of this work, more than 40 diagnoses have been made to date that were previously thought impossible
- Boston Children’s treats AI as infrastructure to cut costs, expand capacity and diagnose cases once thought impossible
Summary
Boston Children’s Hospital did not pursue artificial intelligence simply to experiment with new technology. Boston Children’s Hospital is one of the largest pediatric institutions in the world, serving patients across more than 40 specialties with close to 1 million outpatient visits each year. Like many health systems, it operates under tight financial constraints while managing increasing administrative burden. At the same time, clinical teams face a different kind of limitation.