On day one of AFCEA’s 15th Annual Health IT Summit on Jan. 17, emerging technology panelists from various agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) pointed to partnerships with industry and academia as the key to utilizing new tools – like AI and machine learning – to solve public health issues.

“Two is better than one. We have been able to do a lot of things with the partnerships that we have,” Quinn Ton, director of Advanced Services Delivery and Automation at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said…

Sanja Basaric, the AI program lead at HHS, echoed Ton’s idea that industry partnerships are critical for her young office to understand the landscape of emerging technology outside of the public-sector world.

“Industry has been really valuable,” she said. “They’re the ones that are embedded across the government and their perspective has been really useful in helping us understand what’s out there.” … Read the full article here.