In acknowledgement of the increasing importance of artificial intelligence in healthcare, a website devoted to research and news related to AI and machine learning was launched this month.
JAMA+ AI is part of the JAMA Network, home of the publication previously known as the Journal of the American Medical Association and a variety of other medical journals.
“AI is unique in the way it brings together physicians, scientists and technologists,” said Roy Perlis, the channel’s editor-in-chief. To make AI in health accessible to clinicians, educators, patients, families and others, he said, the website would highlight studies and commentary from specialists in internal medicine, surgery, psychiatry and health policy, to name a few.
JAMA+ AI will supplement studies from across the JAMA Network with author interviews, educational reviews, a podcast and invited commentaries.
The new channel’s first offerings include both new and less recent research, including a July study analysing the use of AI in emergency room triage for patients with chest pain and a 2018 viewpoint article by a 2024 Nobel Prize winner in physics that examines how neural networks may change health care.
JAMA editors said the resource was designed to showcase advances in AI and update readers on the potential implications of the technology’s use in medicine.
“As a practising clinician as well as an editor, I’ve heard a lot of the hope and the hype surrounding AI,” said Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, editor-in-chief of JAMA and the JAMA Network. “To me, what is most useful is the evidence.”
JAMA+ AI can be found online at www.jamaai.org.
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