For the Future of

Digital

The Campaign for NewYork-Presbyterian

Technicians looking at a computer monitor.

We’re on the Verge of a New Era in Medicine—And NewYork-Presbyterian Is Ready to Lead the Way Forward.

For over 250 years, NewYork-Presbyterian has been a pioneer of medical innovations like the Pap smear, the TAVR heart valve replacement procedure, the first spinal fusion surgery, and countless others that have changed life and saved lives across the world.

But emerging technologies have created opportunities unlike any in our history—with the potential to transform all we do in healthcare.

Catching disease before it happens. Customizing treatments and surgeries for every patient. Empowering physician-scientists to ask even bolder research questions. Making healthcare more human, more personal, and more accessible and equitable—for patients across New York and around the world.

All of these possibilities are at our fingertips now, thanks to dramatic advances in fields such as data analysis, AI, and robotics.

With your support, we will make a generational investment in digital tools, technologies, and innovations—revolutionizing the care we offer our patients today and unlocking all-new possibilities for tomorrow.

Learn more about the campaign

Digital Innovation with People at the Heart

At NYP, we bring together everything it takes to make breakthroughs happen—and to make them work for people. With physician-scientists from our Ivy League medical partners, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medicine, who understand both medicine and machine learning; with a commitment to both access and patient care embedded in our DNA; and with a uniquely large and diverse patient population, we can pioneer innovations that translate to every patient and every setting.

Part of my brain looks at the way we practice medicine right now and sees all the things that are wrong with it, sees all the things that are like 20th-century bloodletting. … This is a noble art, but we can do more; we can do better. … Even five, six, seven years ago, we simply didn’t have the infrastructure, the data, the component pieces in place. … There’s been a seismic shift.”

Pierre Elias, MD

Medical Director for Artificial Intelligence, NewYork-Presbyterian

Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiology and the Department of Biomedical Informatics

NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center

We aim to not only be high-tech but also provide compassionate care. Our medical and technological innovations are guided by the needs and experiences of the doctors and patients using them. And the power of this technology is only as strong as the talent, expertise, and data infrastructure behind it. … The hospital of the future blends forward-looking research and cutting-edge technology with innovation in how care is delivered to all communities, including the most vulnerable and underserved.”

Peter M. Fleischut, MD

Group Senior Vice President and Chief Information and Transformation Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian

It’s Time to Reach the Next Horizon of Possibility

How can AI’s ability to catch patterns that the human eye cannot see us detect heart disease and breast cancer sooner?

How can computer-guided imaging and augmented reality make complex surgeries safer, more effective, and more precisely tailored to an individual’s anatomy?

Can we crack the code on what we thought were unsolvable questions, like what causes cardiac death and how to detect neonatal hypoxia?

Can we use AI and robotics to make healthcare more human, helping doctors spend more time with patients and less time on administration?

How can we combine big data and telehealth with a human touch to bring greater access and equity to medically underserved populations?

These are the questions that will define the future. NYP is where the best solutions will begin. And our answers will shape how healthcare is delivered around the world.

NYP: On the Vanguard of Digital Innovation

Ashley Beecy, MD

In Conversation With
Ashley Beecy, MD

A former computer engineer and business executive, Ashley Beecy, MD, helped design processing circuits at IBM and led company-wide digital initiatives at Citi. Today, she is both a cardiologist and the Medical Director of Artificial Intelligence Operations at NewYork-Presbyterian.

Read Ashley’s conversation

What drives you to investigate the intersection of cardiology and AI?

Cardiovascular disease is the top cause of death globally, and the data used to assess cardiovascular disease is well suited to make prognostications with AI.

Currently, in healthcare, we tend to react to problems. Using AI helps us discover heart issues early and be proactive instead of reactive.

Can you share some examples of how you envision AI positively influencing the future of cardiovascular medicine?

AI opens up so many possibilities.

Heart failure can be really different from one person to the next—but tailoring care to each patient is possible with AI.

A physician reaching out and receiving a response that can guide their care in real time is possible with AI.

Automated notes generated while a doctor is discussing the patient’s condition with them is possible with AI.

AI can take details from remote management systems to help physicians. It can help physicians obtain clinical insights much faster.

We are actually building an electronic health record-based workflow to be able to bring AI predictions to the heart failure team so they can identify patients and triage them. This solution will help us capture people with undetected disease before it’s too late.

How is NYP’s approach to combining cardiac care with AI different from what’s happening at other top hospital systems?

There are many modalities to gain insights that physicians wouldn’t otherwise be able to predict. It’s part of the strategy to help accelerate the growth at the intersection of data science.

We have 10 million electrocardiograms (ECGs) in a format available for use in AI and machine learning models. We’ve been able to aggregate our echocardiogram data across all our hospital sites in a structured form for use in data science.

Now we’re creating an architecture to deploy those models, looking beyond the model performance and looking at solution performance. ValveNet, an AI deep learning tool that’s outperformed radiologists in detecting heart failure on chest X-rays, is what it looks like when we’ve brought a model through its life cycle.

With Your Support, We Will Unlock New Possibilities for the Future

Investment Priorities

Empowering Digitally Fluent Researchers and Caregivers

Recruiting, retaining, and empowering physician-scientists leading digital research and translating innovations into patient care settings.
Adding new curricula on machine learning, big data, and AI to create a “bilingual” generation of doctors equally fluent in medicine and the latest technology.

Utilizing AI

Investing in software, hardware, and research initiatives that leverage machine learning, AI, and predictive analytics to realize previously impossible aspirations. Among many other possibilities, that means:

Predicting, diagnosing, and preventing cardiac conditions with greater precision and personalization than ever, including training AI-powered tools on every electrocardiogram in our vast system.
Creating individualized treatment plans using a person’s physical data, patient-specific risks, social determinants of health, and more.
Identifying patterns in patient health data to help evaluate risk for postpartum anxiety, assess cancer screenings, monitor fetal health, and more.
Harnessing machine learning to gain a new understanding of the most complex computer in existence: the human brain.
Using AI to help patients track behavioral health symptoms and access treatments.
Honing our understanding of individual cancer behavior using the uniquely large, diverse patient data of NYP.

Investing in Robotics and Next-Generation Tools

Bringing together robotics, navigation systems, and augmented reality to support maximally precise, minimally invasive spine surgeries.
Using robotics and automated systems to support pharmacy operations, enhance patient safety, and free caregiver time for patient care.

Expanding Access and Virtual Care

Broadening telehealth and virtual care offerings, ensuring everyone has access to high-quality healthcare and raising the bar for the industry.
Leveraging NYP-designed apps to provide education, resources, support, and treatment in women’s health, behavioral health, and more.
Expanding our cardiac remote-monitoring program to catch problems before they happen, adjust treatments more rapidly and precisely, and reduce the need for heart surgery.

Ensuring a Just, Secure Digital Future

Creating the most accurate, equitable computer models possible by including the full diversity of the communities we serve and accounting for potential differences.
Advancing and scaling an innovative social determinants of health data project—a standardized, system-wide screening and referral tool to help patients meet basic needs.
Building a world-class cybersecurity program to protect patient data from bad actors.

The Future Starts Now

With your support, we will push healthcare forward with boldness, thoughtfulness, and a human touch.

Working together, we will make life longer and better for millions.

We will ensure that our digital future in healthcare is more inclusive, ethical, and equitable than ever before.

And we will show what this advanced healthcare is capable of—reaching people around the world with our innovations, beginning with countless lives we touch right here in New York.

This is just the beginning. Join us in making it happen.

For every person whose life could be saved …

For every physician dreaming of better, more personalized care …

For every researcher redefining our sense of the possible …

Make a difference today.

Donate Now.