“Recent strides in artificial intelligence strategies call for closer attention to specific facets like ethics and data modernization. With recently outlined efforts and in light of executive orders, the Department of Veterans Affairs is further aligning its AI direction to ultimately improve care for veterans.”
“’Taking the trustworthy AI executive order to the next step in terms of applying it to the VA — we wrote a paper, which basically takes some of those points and sees how those those trustworthy AI principles specifically can apply in VA settings,’ Gil Alterovitz, VA’s director of the National Artificial Intelligence Institute (NAII), told GovernmentCIO Media & Research…”
“The agency’s July 2021 AI strategy formalized how it will develop, use and deploy AI capabilities. Alterovitz noted that this strategy has detailed action points with four primary goals:
- Use existing AI capacities to better deliver health care and benefits to veterans
- Develop these existing AI capacities
- Increase veteran and stakeholder trust in AI
- Build upon partnerships with industry and other government agencies.”
“VA is developing an AI checklist to better enable researchers, developers and clinicians to proactively identify gaps and challenges with AI capabilities, Alterovitz said. The checklist will provide considerations to have a better quality, more robust AI model…” Read the full article here.
Source: AI is Driving Accessibility, Equity in VA Health Care – By Sarah Sybert, December 22, 2021. GovernmentCIO.
