“The Department of Health and Human Services’ Artificial Intelligence Strategy is driving its four focus areas forward with a central theme of collaboration, the agency’s Chief AI Officer Oki Mek said during NVIDIA’s virtual event last week.”
“Released in January, the strategy aims to enhance the health and wellbeing of all Americans. The strategy has four main focuses, which include forming an AI Council, AI Community of Practice, governance and compliance, as well as support for research and development in AI.”
“Across those four focus areas, Mek said collaboration and idea-sharing are the best approaches his agency can take in accomplishing its mission with AI. He emphasized this point especially in the first focus of the AI Strategy — the formation of the AI Council.”
“’I believe AI is a team sport,’ Mek said. ‘We want each operating division and staff division across the department to have a voice with how the department is carrying out the AI strategy. We believe in collaboration. We stand to learn a lot from one another…’”
“Collaboration also means focusing on inclusion, in that different people have different perspectives on privacy, data, security and human-centered AI, Mek said, highlighting the AI Community of Practice’s cooperative nature.”
“’We want to celebrate AI initiatives, share lessons learned, promote best practices, establish an AI playbook that is targeted at the health sector and focus on two biggest obstacles in AI: data acquisition or collection and data preparation,’ Mek said…” Read the full article here.
Source: HHS AI Chief Calls for Collaboration in Strategy Execution — By Melissa Harris, April 19, 2021. GovernmentCIO.
