MAY 24, 2018

AI on the Horizon for Nutrition Support

Las Vegas—Artificial intelligence is on the menu at Mayo Clinic.

The hospital has created an AI system called FEED (Feeding Effectively Using Electronic Data) to focus on safety and quality for patients receiving nutrition support, said M. Molly McMahon, MD, the president of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN), and a professor of medicine at Mayo’s Rochester, Minn., campus.

FEED is a hospital rules–based program that uses logic algorithms to pull