Strategic Plan Goal 2 in Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Informatics

The goal of the strategic plan focuses on developing and applying biomedical artificial intelligence, neural engineering, machine learning and informatics capabilities to make rapid advances in biomedical research, education, health outcomes and value-based patient care.

Goal 2 will facilitate collaboration with researchers across the University, as well as clinicians from Penn State Health, to build unique tools and data sets that can answer complex questions needed to advance biomedical research and health outcomes. Penn State has tremendous resources in artificial intelligence (AI) and computational sciences that can be applied to health and health care in exciting and groundbreaking ways. To do so, we will create and implement a biomedical informatics infrastructure (algorithms, faculty/staff, computation power, custom tools and partnerships) to address the complex research problems present in individualized patient care and populations of care. Long-term goals include eliminating health disparities and transforming access to care by leveraging Penn State-wide strengths in digital innovation, computational and data sciences, population health, translational research and clinical care networks.