“As the Veterans Affairs Department’s inaugural Director of Artificial Intelligence, Gil Alterovitz aims to leverage the emerging technology and the agency’s cornucopia of data to proactively anticipate and tackle problems afflicting veterans like never before…”
“Veterans Affairs has one of the largest integrated medical records systems and access to one of the most robust data collections in the world. The new director highlighted a variety of projects in which the agency is already making new strides through the implementation of AI.”
“This week, the department released a paper in Nature, a publication Alterovitz said is widely accepted as one of the most respected biomedical science journals in the world. The study demonstrates how the agency, in collaboration with technology company DeepMind Health, developed an AI system that can forecast a life-threatening kidney disease before it appears…”
“Having only served in this role for about a month, Alterovitz is also working with VA insiders to design a roadmap for success and pursuing a variety of avenues to establish his internal team. He’s taking an inventory of the VA’s wide variety of AI and other innovation-focused projects that are already in the works with the hope of coordinating those activities so people across all of the agency’s research areas can benefit.” Read the full article here.
Source: How VA is Applying Artificial Intelligence to Proactively Solve Veterans’ Problems – By Brandi Vincent, August 1, 2019. Nextgov.
