MENU Partners
e-HAIL collaborates with groups across the University of Michigan to help researchers connect and learn from others working in AI and health
Campus Partners
AI & Digital Health Innovation
AI & Digital Health Innovation (AI&DHI) was announced in February 2025 with e-HAIL as one of its initial communities of researchers. AI&DHI drives innovation at the intersection of AI and health by creating and providing cutting-edge resources that are accessible to all U-M researchers. These resources include an extensive repository containing de-identified health data on more than 5 million U-M Health patients; a fully consented genetics dataset of over 100,000 participants provided through MGI; and robust data storage and processing support for machine learning.
AI&DHI also helps teams integrate their AI/ML models into the clinical workflow for testing at Michigan Medicine by providing IRB guidance and consultation, engaging with subject matter experts and clinical operational governance committees, navigating MiChart integration, and providing general project support.
Michigan AI Laboratory
The Michigan AI Laboratory is a vibrant research group in the Computer Science and Engineering Division of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department that includes faculty, research scientists, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows working on making fundamental advances in AI.
Founded in 1988, the AI Lab has been for more than 30 years the home on campus for core AI research. It has a long history of collaboration with units across campus. Research at Michigan AI tends to be highly interdisciplinary, building on ideas from computer science, linguistics, psychology, economics, biology, controls, statistics, philosophy. In pursuing this approach, laboratory faculty and students work closely with colleagues throughout the university. e-HAIL was established in May 2021 following a series of workshops and conversations between the AI lab and Michigan Medicine (MM), in anticipation of the increased importance of AI in healthcare in terms of both methodological as well as clinical innovation.
Center for Global Health Equity
The Center for Global Health Equity (CGHE) champions interdisciplinary, collaborative efforts to address health disparities in low- and middle-income countries. By uniting U-M faculty, staff, and students with global partners, we amplify our impact on individuals and communities in need.
From its establishment, e-HAIL has supported international research partnerships, since the development and deployment of AI-based tools for improved health outcomes is as meaningful in the US as it is globally.
Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation
The Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation (IHPI) is the nation’s largest university-based community of health services researchers, working together across diverse disciplines to study complex and timely health challenges that refuse simple definition or confinement within a single field of study. IHPI unites 750+ faculty across 15 U-M schools and colleges on the Ann Arbor campus, and several units on the Flint and Dearborn campuses, combining broad expertise to respond to vital questions within healthcare policy and practice.
The Institute’s mission is to foster innovative, interdisciplinary research to inform policies and practices that advance the equity, quality, safety, and affordability of healthcare, and improve health for individuals, families, and communities.
e-HAIL is one of IHPI’s many affiliated centers and programs.
Executive Partners
Michigan Medicine
eHealth is a priority for the U-M Medical School Office of Research Great Minds, Greater Discoveries strategic research plan, and to date the Office of Research has supported this domain through the creation of the Data Office for Clinical and Translational Research, investments in partnership with other campus collaborators in AI & Digital Health Innovation, and the implementation of e-HAIL with the College of Engineering.
Further eHealth planning will engage these and other existing programs across campus to focus on the strategies and resources needed to take Michigan Medicine research activities to the next level and synergize with the health system through translational efforts.
U-M College of Engineering
Michigan Engineers are at the forefront of advancing artificial intelligence, from its core enabling technologies to impactful, interdisciplinary applications that address today’s complex challenges. Engineering’s pioneering research and education builds on longstanding leadership that goes back to the dawn of the information age.
e-HAIL is supported by the College of Engineering’s Office of the Associate Dean for Research in partnership with the Michigan Medicine Office of Research.