News from the Division
Research milestones, grants and awards, education programs, and media coverage from the BIDMC Emergency Medicine AI Division.
Dr. Adrian Haimovich wins the 2027 Jonathan A. Edlow, MD Emergency Medicine Research and Scholarship Award
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Adrian Haimovich, MD, PhD, Adrian Haimovich, MD, PhD (Director, Division of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School) was presented with the 2027 Jonathan A. Edlow Emergency Medicine Research and Scholarship Award at last night’s 2027 BIDMC Research Retreat
New Publication — Advancing Emergency Cardiac Care Through AI
Congratulations to Jake Hoyne, MD, Associate Director of Operations, Department of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, on the publication of new research in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions — a multicenter study, “AI-Enabled ECG Analysis Improves Diagnostic Accuracy and Reduces False STEMI Activations: A Multicenter U.S. Registry.”
BIDMC Emergency Medicine Researchers Contribute to National Study on Care for Boarding Patients
Researchers from the Department of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) are among the authors of a new multicenter study published in JAMA examining an increasingly urgent challenge facing hospitals nationwide: the care of admitted patients who remain in the emergency department while awaiting an inpatient bed.
Department Announces Emergency Medicine AI Workshop in Paris, France - April 2027
The BIDMC Department of Emergency Medicine has added an AI in Emergency Medicine Workshop to its 2027 international live CME offerings.
Dr. John Lee awarded the Harvard Catalyst K12 Training Award
Dr. John Lee has been awarded the Harvard Catalyst K12 Training Award to develop an AI/ML-driven, video-based method for automated, continuous assessment of respiratory distress in the emergency department (ED). This work aims to transform the subjective, intermittent bedside evaluation of respiratory distress into an objective, continuously quantifiable signal, with the goal of improving early detection of respiratory deterioration and clinical decision-making in acute care settings. The project also includes a prospective feasibility study evaluating continuous video-based monitoring of high-risk patients in the ED, with the long-term goal of making the ED a safer environment for patients at risk of clinical deterioration.
Two New Studies Show How AI Can Help Make Emergency Care Safer and More Human
Emergency departments are the front door of the health care system. Every day, ED teams are asked to recognize serious illness, identify unmet needs, catch diagnostic risk, and make high-stakes decisions for patients they may be meeting for the first time. That work is essential, but the scale is enormous. Two new studies from members of our AI Division point to a common idea: AI may be most useful in emergency care when it helps clinicians notice what is otherwise too easy to miss.
Dr Adrian Haimovich Presents his AI Research at the 25th International Conference on Emergency Medicine, Germany
Dr. Adrian Haimovich, the Director of the BIDMC Department of Emergency Medicine’s Division of Artificial Intelligence, spoke on Artificial Intelligence in Sepsis at last week’s prestigious and 25th annual International Conference of Emergency Medicine in Hamburg, Germany. He also contributed to two AI-related panel discussions.
Harvard Medical School and the BIDMC Division of AI in Emergency Medicine Launch 1st CME Course “AI in Emergency Medicine” for December 3-4, 2026
This first and novel course, AI in Emergency Medicine, launches December 3 and 4 with a faculty of renowned experts in Clinical AI.
AI Division and Partners publish novel research: Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician
In new research by Brodeur et al., the OpenAI o1 large language model was tested directly against hundreds of physicians across diagnostic and management tasks—from published vignettes to brand-new ER patients—outperforming both human physicians and older models and pointing to its potential utility in clinical care.
Dr. John Lee Awarded National Grant for Emergency AI Project
Dr. John H. Lee, MD, PhD, of BIDMC and Harvard Medical School has been awarded the NFEM Scholar Program 2026 to develop an AI-driven, video-based system for continuously and objectively assessing respiratory distress in the emergency department.