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Upskill for Health
The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) and the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) as founding partners of Upskill for Health: Advancing Interprofessional AI Readiness (Upskill for Health). This new initiative will equip interprofessional coalitions in their efforts to reimagine training and rebuild care enabled by artificial intelligence (AI). With support from Google.org, $10 million has been committed to expanding interprofessional care and training for this new era of health care.
The Background
To inform the initiative’s design, CMSS and AAN conducted landscape analyses of AI readiness in medicine and nursing. Both reports found that governance has not kept pace with AI adoption, practice has moved ahead of education in AI readiness, and readiness means more than knowing how to operate a tool. To advance this work, a new AI readiness framework has been developed to prepare individual clinicians, interprofessional teams, and health systems for AI-enabled care that improves patient outcomes and clinician well-being.
The Upskill for Health Advisory Committee will provide strategic guidance over the duration of the three-year initiative and help extend its reach and impact. Ultimately, Upskill for Health will draw on the work of participating coalitions to inform scalable, replicable interprofessional training and care models that can be applied across the clinical enterprise culminating in a national framework for interprofessional AI readiness and an open-source national playbook.
The Upskill for Health Request for Proposals (RFP) is now open.
Applications from interprofessional coalitions, including medicine and nursing, to conduct this work within their clinical domains. Upskill for Health is structured in two phases: Reimagine and Rebuild.
Phase 1, Reimagine
Each funded coalition will focus on an opportunity to improve care in a clinical domain where AI could make a significant difference and will work with clinicians and patients to design the care model and interprofessional training to address it.
Phase 2, Rebuild
A subset of funded coalitions will receive larger awards to test and implement their interprofessional training and care models in practice at partner health systems.