Last week, the Israel Association for Emergency Medicine hosted its highly anticipated Annual Conference bringing together leading minds to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of acute care.

Physicians from the Department of Emergency Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) will collaborate with Microsoft AI on an exciting new research initiative aimed at evaluating the potential of artificial intelligence to transform clinical decision-making and patient care.

Adrian D. Haimovich, MD, of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine, joins a distinguished group of global leaders in medicine and AI—including Eric Topol, Mustafa Suleyman, and Eric Horvitz—as co-author of “Medical Superintelligence: Foundations and Aspirations,” published October 22, 2026, in BMJ Digital Health & AI.

Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) today announced the founding of the Center of Surgical and Medical Intelligence within the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Institute for Evidence, Innovation, and Policy. The Center will advance the science and capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and surgery.

By building unified data systems from the clinic to the operating room, the Center will generate insights across the entire patient journey. This infrastructure will provide benchmarks and tools for collaboration across industry, academia, and government.

Dr. Gabriel (Gabe) Erion Barner and Dr. Adrian Haimovich launch an innovative research initiative evaluating the use of conversational artificial intelligence in emergency care. The study, MINERVA-HX, will assess whether an AI-powered voice and text assistant can safely and accurately collect patient medical histories, generate clinically useful summaries, and identify potentially urgent symptoms. Researchers will compare the AI system's assessments with those of emergency physicians while evaluating patient experience and clinical feasibility.

The BIDMC Division of Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Adrian Haimovich, is conducting a study about how emergency medicine and hospitalist physicians think through patient disposition. Both emergency physicians and hospitalists are invited to participate.

Steven Pepe, BS, of the Department of Emergency Medicine presented MINERVA – Real Time Clinical Voice Agent at the BIDMC Research Retreat.

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

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.”

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.

The BIDMC Department of Emergency Medicine has added an AI in Emergency Medicine Workshop to its 2027 international live CME offerings.

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.

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, 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.