Archives: Faith Ryan

• Artificial Intelligence

A federal prize competition currently underway aims to spur health care innovation by reducing hospital readmission rates and providing patients with value-based care.

• Artificial Intelligence

A working group tasked with addressing best practices and guidelines for the National Institutes of Health to advance artificial intelligence in research efforts released recommendations last month to address areas like data generation and ethics around the technology.

• Health IT

The National Institutes of Health is aggregating and integrating scientific data across various enterprise data platforms to advance biomedical research. With that effort, researchers are encountering challenges that cloud-service technologies could address in the coming year.

Health agencies point to a need for modernized IT infrastructure and data-driven decisions.

The KidneyX initiative launched its second phase for innovating dialysis care.

With congressional bipartisan support for the Department of Veterans Affairs via budgetary appropriations and necessary agency oversight, veteran access to health care services could be improved through the effective use of data and legislation, U.S. Senator John Boozman said at the Veterans Digital Transformation Breakfast.

Lawmakers discuss opportunities for the federal government to compete with industry for top talent.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cloud

There is a huge opportunity for artificial intelligence and cloud computing to accelerate modernizing federal government systems, but the government has to collaborate effectively with industry to enhance innovation, according to the federal procurement chief.

• Workforce

Coding it Forward, a student-started nonprofit organization, is empowering young technologists to bring about impactful social change in the federal government.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Presidential Transition

The American AI Initiative named five key areas crucial to successful AI implementation at federal agencies...

• Data
• Health IT

A new automated data analytics program is crucial for the early detection of signals and predications for regulated chemicals that may pose highly hazardous health risks at the Food and Drug Administration.

• Workforce

The Department of Health and Human Services is collaborating on various technology pilot programs with public and private-industry partners to automate workflow processes, aligning data-sharing strategies with security and human-centered design.