Prime Highlights-
- Edge Medicine wins a $10 million multiyear Laude Institute Moonshots award to build the Center for Edge Medicine for AI healthcare.
- The center will develop open infrastructure, care models and AI methods that bring chronic disease care into patients’ daily lives.
Key Facts-
- JupyterHealth is an open platform that securely combines wearable and medical record data for care teams.
- JupyterHealth v0.1 already runs three operational pilots, according to Laude Institute’s David Patterson.
Background-
Edge Medicine has won a $10 million, multiyear award from Laude Institute, one of four research labs funded through its Moonshots competition. The money will launch the Center for Edge Medicine, which plans to build open infrastructure, care models and AI methods that bring healthcare into daily life, where people live with and manage chronic disease.
The project grew out of faculty conversations at UCSF and UC Berkeley Computational Precision Health, a group of more than 90 faculty that links Berkeley’s strength in computer science, AI and statistics with UCSF’s clinical care and informatics. Co-directors Dr. Ida Sim and Dr. Maya Petersen lead the effort with faculty members Ahmed Alaa, Irene Chen and Fernando Pérez, a co-founder of Project Jupyter.
Laude Institute asked top AI researchers how they would tackle humanity’s hardest problems. Edge Medicine joined eight seed awardees in April and now takes the Moonshot for frontline healthcare.
The center will run four core efforts. JupyterHealth is an open platform that securely combines wearable and medical record data. UCSF will pilot a Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic care model. Researchers will develop clinical foundation models and reinforcement learning methods that learn from every patient. An Innovation Challenge will invite teams to propose uses for JupyterHealth.
David Patterson, founding board chair of Laude Institute, said the team is extending Project Jupyter’s shared-infrastructure model into healthcare. He noted that JupyterHealth v0.1 already runs three operational pilots.
