Advancing Science, Technology, and Innovation
In an era of unprecedented progress, the National Academy of Medicine is working to ensure responsible and effective application of advances in science and technology.
Ensuring strong ethical frameworks can ensure maximum benefit from innovations, prevent unanticipated risks, and enable solutions to challenges once considered impossible.
Consensus Report
Innovation for the Benefit of All
Our 2023 report outlines a framework for decisions throughout the innovation life cycle to ensure that new health interventions and technologies respond to the needs of a broad range of individuals.
Jul 13, 2026Commentary
Patient Safety in the Era of AI: Draft Conditions for the Design of Safe Care
This commentary was developed under the auspices of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)’s Steering Group on Patient Safety in the Era of AI. Introduction In the quarter-century since the publication of To Err Is Human, both the awareness and the context for patient safety have changed markedly (IOM, 2000). Treatment and diagnostic modalities have increased considerably, care systems have […]
Artificial IntelligenceDigital Health
Jun 8, 2026Commentary
The Opportunity Cost of Market Narratives in Health Care AI
The current discourse surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in health care demands a more rigorous examination of the disparity between prospective capabilities and empirically validated outcomes. As enthusiasm outpaces evidence, health care institutions face a critical inflection point. From the perspective of a researcher whose work in medical AI predates the current enthusiasm cycle, and whose belief in the technology’s fundamental […]
Artificial IntelligencePayment Reform
Dec 8, 2025Commentary
Critical AI Health Literacy as Liberation Technology: A New Skill for Patient Empowerment
National Academy of Medicine · Critical AI Health Literacy as Liberation Technology: A New Skill for Patient Empowerment (National Academy of Medicine) Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping health care in ways that affect patients, clinicians, and institutions alike. Health AI, as defined in this commentary, encompasses digital tools deployed by health care organizations (e.g., generative AI, ambient scribes, machine […]
Artificial IntelligenceHealth Literacy
Jul 15, 2026Statement
Comments of the National Academy of Medicine on OMB’s Proposal to Alter the Federal Grantmaking Process
Biomedical Research
Jun 11, 2026Announcement
National Academy of Medicine to Convene Workshop on Preparing for a Future of AI-Enabled Biology
Artificial IntelligenceEmerging Science and TechnologyGlobal HealthPreparedness and Response
Jun 2, 2026Story
“Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It”: Bridging Medicine and Human Rights
Biomedical ResearchChildren and Families
May 20, 2026News
NAM Initiative Will Strengthen Physician-Scientist Workforce and Advance Biomedical Innovation
Biomedical ResearchEducation, Training, and LeadershipWorkforce and Interprofessionalism
