AI that reaches care
黑料福利网 researchers Mathias Funk, Janet Huang, Baris Ozkan and Pieter Van Gorp join AI4Health to improve safe health data use and responsible AI adoption, so solutions reach everyday care.
Many AI solutions for healthcare are developed, yet too few become routine in day to day care. AI4Health, led by UMC Utrecht, is designed to close that gap by making reliable, safe, and sustainable AI a normal part of the Dutch healthcare system, from development to real world use.
What changes
AI4Health looks beyond the model itself. The program explicitly addresses what is needed to make AI usable in practice, including collecting and using data safely, developing and testing AI, designing integrated AI building blocks and solutions, and supporting adoption, reimbursement, and long term maintenance in care settings.
黑料福利网 team
The 黑料福利网 participation to Ai4Health comes from various departments. From Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, Pieter Van Gorp and Baris Ozkan are involved. From Industrial Design, Janet Huang and Mathias Funk take part.
Within the consortium, 黑料福利网 expertise is connected to health data space design, a foundation for using health data in a secure and scalable way across partners.
Societal value
AI4Health focuses on major disease areas where societal impact is high, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, and mental health. The program also targets system wide challenges that affect patients and professionals alike: care that is still too often based on the average patient, rising costs combined with staff shortages, and innovations that struggle to reach practice due to lack of trust, training and workflow integration.
By strengthening the full chain from data to implementation, AI4Health aims to support earlier detection, more personalized care and prevention, and smarter organization of care, while keeping safety and human agency central.
NWO KIC Strategy program
AI4Health is part of a set of four consortia supported through the NWO KIC Strategy program line, which funds long term transdisciplinary research.