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Data science in general, and artificial intelligence (AI) including machine learning in particular, will fundamentally transform society, including the healthcare sector. AI is expected to become an integral part of our daily health, healthcare, health research, and health education. It will impact everyone: patients, citizens, employees, teachers, and students. Diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, monitoring and screening of health and diseases will all be impacted. For the UMC Utrecht, this means that the way of working, doing research and providing education will change significantly. Data Science and AI will therefore become a focus of our health(care) research and education in the coming era.

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The UMC Utrecht data science program aims to integrate data science and AI into daily healthcare, health research, and health education. It also focuses on establishing a collaborative community and infrastructure for "AI in Health" between UMC Utrecht and Utrecht University (UU), while setting up five "Health AI labs" within the Utrecht Life Sciences community.

The UMC Utrecht data science program includes:

• making data science and AI embedded in our daily health care, health research, and health education aligned with our regional, national, and international partners within ten years;
• establish a sustainable collaborative UMC Utrecht-UU ‘AI in Health’ community and infrastructure ;
• establish 5 ‘Health AI labs’ at the UMC Utrecht and the UU, within the Utrecht Life Sciences community;
• attract and retain data science and AI talent, both from public and private parties.

The themes of the Health AI Labs represent the data science and AI research expertise and will cover existing and future novel projects aligned with the UMC Utrecht and UU (& ULS) strategies.