Advancing Science, Technology, and Innovation

Emerging technologies are redefining expectations for health and medicine and accelerating the pace of innovation. The radical novelty and convergence of platform technologies, including mRNA, gene editing, and artificial intelligence, are creating remarkable opportunities to prevent disease, personalize care, and transform health systems. For example, mRNA platform technology enabled rapid vaccine development during the COVID-19 pandemic and provided the foundation […]

This commentary was developed under the auspices of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)’s Steering Group on Patient Safety in the Era of AI. Introduction In the quarter-century since the publication of To Err Is Human, both the awareness and the context for patient safety have changed markedly (IOM, 2000). Treatment and diagnostic modalities have increased considerably, care systems have […]

The current discourse surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in health care demands a more rigorous examination of the disparity between prospective capabilities and empirically validated outcomes. As enthusiasm outpaces evidence, health care institutions face a critical inflection point. From the perspective of a researcher whose work in medical AI predates the current enthusiasm cycle, and whose belief in the technology’s fundamental […]