Source: MeriTalk
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is set to release a new enterprise-wide AI strategy in January, HHS Acting Chief AI Officer (CAIO) Micky Tripathi said last week. During the NVIDIA AI Summit in Washington on Oct. 8, Tripathi detailed the forthcoming AI strategic plan, noting that it “spans the entire breadth of what the department covers.” Tripathi – who also serves as the department’s assistant secretary for technology policy and national coordinator for health IT – said that HHS’ work spans across the “value chain of life sciences and healthcare.” “Starting with research and discovery of medical products – that’s drugs, biologics, diagnostics, devices, all the preclinical work that NIH primarily does there. Then you move to approvals from measuring safety and effectiveness of those medical products,” Tripathi explained. “Then you go to healthcare delivery. Everything involved with healthcare delivery in the Department of Human Services covers both the largest health insurers in the world, Medicare and Medicaid, as well as significant activities related to how health delivery happens.”