“The Department of Veterans Affairs is aiming to drastically expand its artificial intelligence research and implementation, according to newly appointed Director of Artificial Intelligence Gil Alterovitz.
“The VA is an ideal staging ground to explore large-scale AI initiatives, said Alterovitz at the Nextgov Tech Talk on AI event Aug. 20. Alterovitz highlighted the VA’s extensive repository of patient health and genomic data, noting that “this enables a special opportunity to help veterans.”
“The agency’s AI outlook appears predicated on leveraging this data to engage in diagnostics research, allowing levels of analytic sophistication that would have been previously impossible. However, Alterovitz emphasized this would require a broader transformation in VA IT to support this caliber of data processing…”
“The greatest promise in using AI is to advance proactive detection for often-lethal conditions like acute kidney injury, said Alterovitz. Noting the inherent limitations of reactive detection in treating serious health conditions, Alterovitz mentioned the VA’s big data and…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Focuses on New AI Initiatives – By Adam Patterson, August 23, 2019. GovernmentCIO.
