The Department of Veterans Affairs is leveraging data standards to take advantage of new information coming from smart devices and improve personalized medicine for veterans.
“Our job is to look at where we need to be in health care, not where we’re at,” VA’s Deputy Chief Health Technology Officer Joe Ronzio said during ATARC’s Federal AI & Data Summit in Washington, D.C. Thursday. “We’re constantly trying to figure out where we need to be in five to ten years… When you modernize, you need to be looking to the future of where we need to get ahead, but we’re still using old systems in the majority of health care.” …
As consumers use personal health monitoring devices, Ronzio said there needs to be a greater emphasis on data privacy and protection. VA is also focusing on ethical AI, especially as it relates to health care. As more organizations develop AI-driven solutions, VA is working to mitigate bias to improve personalized health care.
“How do we get to a point of impacting the health of everyone in the United States? How do we drive personalized medicine? Every single analytics platform requires a lot of data,” Ronzio said. “So, we’re not going to get a machine learning algorithm to understand it unless we get a lot of data and a lot of people who want to support these types of initiatives. But that’s not going to be cheap. And, for it to be effective, it needs to help you at the time you need it.” … Read the full article here.
