“The Veterans Affairs and Agriculture departments are putting their data to work.”
“VA is applying deep analytics to health care data to address challenges with the coronavirus. USDA created management dashboards to improve decision making. Both agencies are seeing the value of artificial intelligence and big data on a larger scale and at an accelerated pace.”
“Dr. Gil Alterovitz, the director of the National Artificial Intelligence Institute at VA, said during a recent AFCEA Bethesda panel that the agency recently completed an AI tech sprint, which involves VA and private sector companies using agency data.”
“One of the organizations just completed a clinical trial matching program which has been evaluated by the Office of Information and Technology looking around different metrics and it was evaluated as being production ready,” Alterovitz said on the panel, which was part of Ask the CIO. “That could empower 9 million veterans once it’s activated to search for clinical trials and experimental therapeutics that may be suitable for them.”
“Additionally, the AI tech sprint effort focused on…” Read or listen to the newscast here.
Source: Analytics reveal areas for mission improvement at USDA, VA – By Jason Miller, May 22, 2020. Federal News Network.
