ARISE awarded $3.8M ARPA-H funding to advance physician-AI collaboration in medicine
ARISE Team
We are excited to announce that ARISE has been awarded up to $3.8M in funding from ARPA-H for PACT: Physician-AI Collaboration Teaming, a project focused on evaluating how generative AI systems can be used in clinical care.
The award is led by Stanford University, with collaborators across Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) / Harvard Medical School and Erasmus Medical Center.
ARISE was founded because AI has real potential to advance patient care, from helping physicians with their workflows, to expediting time to diagnosis, to supporting the search for new therapies. However, healthcare is a setting where strong performance on isolated benchmarks is not enough. Clinical AI needs to be tested against the complexity of real patient care, including how these systems affect physician judgment, workflow, and decision-making.
PACT is an important step in that direction. The team will build a real-world, task-first benchmark to better understand where physician-AI collaboration may improve outcomes. The benchmark will be grounded in electronic health record pipelines at Stanford and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and will focus on high-risk cognitive tasks across primary care and emergency department settings.
The initiative brings together a multidisciplinary team across clinical informatics, cognitive psychology, human-computer interaction, biostatistics, and large-scale benchmark development.
ARISE is grateful to ARPA-H for supporting this next phase of work. This award will enable the team to continue building the evidence base for physician-AI collaboration in clinical care.
Full announcement: https://origin.arpa-h.gov/explore-funding/awards/4316
Acknowledgements
PACT is led by a multidisciplinary research team across Stanford University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) / Harvard Medical School, Erasmus Medical Center, and the broader ARISE network. The project is co-led by Jonathan H. Chen, Ethan Goh, Arjun Manrai, Laura Zwaan, and Adam Rodman. The broader team includes Nigam Shah, Arnold Milstein, and Jason Hom. ARISE is an interdisciplinary research network of clinicians, researchers, and builders across academic medical centers. Read more about our team here: https://www.arise-ai.org/team. This announcement was drafted by Cathy Liu, Anastasia Perez-Ternet, and Mahbuba Tusty.
