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CMS NEWS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: CMS Media Relations CMS
Selects Winner and Runner-Up in Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes
Challenge The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) today announced that ClosedLoop.ai was selected the winner and
Geisinger the runner-up in the agency’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Health
Outcomes Challenge. This multi-stage competition, operated by CMS’s Center
for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMS Innovation Center) in collaboration
with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and Arnold Ventures,
began in 2019 with the aim of accelerating development of AI solutions for
predicting patient health outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries for potential
use by the Innovation Center. The competition has significantly broadened the
Innovation Center’s knowledge of AI and its potential applications, which
will help the CMS Innovation Center better design and implement future models
as part of its mission to test innovative payment and service delivery
models. “Clinicians are eager to use the latest
innovations to better help identify patients at risk, provide higher quality
care, and improve health outcomes. The use of artificial intelligence has the
potential to achieve these aims by providing important information to
clinicians that may be helpful in providing higher quality care,” said CMS Acting
Administrator Liz Richter. “CMS’s AI Health Outcomes Challenge has brought
this exciting future one step closer to reality by engaging with some of the
country’s brightest AI innovators. We congratulate ClosedLoop.ai and
Geisinger on their achievements, and all the Challenge finalists and
participants for helping increase the information available to clinicians to
improve patient care.” Out of more than 300 initial entries,
ClosedLoop.ai was chosen as the grand prize winner and will receive up to $1 million
in prize money. Based in Austin, Texas, the company is a leader in developing
healthcare data science solutions. Challenge Runner-Up Geisinger, a
non-profit healthcare system based in Danville, Pennsylvania, will receive up
to $230,000 in prize money. The CMS AI Health Outcomes Challenge
attracted innovators from all sectors – not just from healthcare – to harness
AI solutions to predict health outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries. From the
initial group of more than 300 entries, the Challenge progressed through
several stages, and participants were narrowed down to the top 25 and then
seven finalists. ClosedLoop.ai and Geisinger were among the
seven finalists chosen in October 2020 to take part in the final stage of the
competition. In this last stage, the participants further refined the
solutions that they developed in the prior stage to help predict unplanned
hospital and skilled nursing facility admissions and adverse events, and
additionally developed predictive algorithms to identify beneficiaries at
risk of mortality in 12 months. The finalists worked to address sources of
bias in their solutions that could have the potential to affect health
disparities in their submissions. The finalists also demonstrated how their
solutions would easily explain the predictions to clinicians. “Avoidable hospitalizations and skilled
nursing facility stays are bad for patients and make our healthcare system
costlier and less sustainable for everyone,” said Mark Miller, executive vice
president of health care at Arnold Ventures. “We are eager to see how the
winners of the competition use new data approaches to identify solutions to
improve care in Medicare." Each finalist in the AI Health Outcomes
Challenge exhibited superior performance on at least one required element of
the competition. ClosedLoop.ai and Geisinger were distinguished by their
consistent strong performance across all competition elements while
generating the best prediction accuracy results. To select the winner and runner-up, CMS
conducted a rigorous evaluation process, supported by a team of AI
scientists. Clinicians from the AAFP reviewed and scored the explainability
element. Submissions were reviewed and the winners selected by a panel of CMS
senior leadership. Of the $1.65 million in total prizes to participants,
Arnold Ventures will contribute up to $300,000 and the AAFP is contributing
up to $340,000.“We are excited about the early successes and great potential
of Artificial Intelligence to dramatically improve health outcomes, reduce
administrative burden, and create smarter health IT,” said American Academy
of Family Physicians EVP/CEO Shawn Martin. “We were pleased to partner with
the CMS Innovation Center on the AI Health Outcomes Challenge and to bring
family physicians into the evaluation of the contestants to help identify the
winners. We look forward to seeing the winning, and all of the great,
solutions in the market.” More information on the CMS AI Health
Outcomes Challenge is available at: https://innovation.cms.gov/innovation-models/artificial-intelligence-health-outcomes-challenge ### |
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Friday, April 30, 2021
CMS NEWS: CMS Selects Winner and Runner-Up in Artificial Intelligence Health Outcom
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