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Building the Military Health System’s AI Ecosystem

The Defense Health Agency (DHA) is building the data, infrastructure and governance frameworks needed to safely scale emerging AI capabilities like generative and agentic AI across the Military Health System. Leaders from DHA and Red Hat explain how to develop a secure AI ecosystem to support clinical care, operational efficiency and innovation.

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How DHA’s five-year data strategy is laying the foundation for expanded AI capabilities across the Military Health System. Timestamp: 1:18.
What it takes to build an AI ecosystem that supports secure implementation, visibility and interoperability. Timestamp: 4:37.
How to approach governance and security as advanced AI tools move into clinical environments. Timestamp: 12:48.

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Jesus Caban CDAO, DHA
Jesus Caban
- CDAO
- DHA
Jesus Caban is the CDAO at the DHA.
Ben Cushing Senior Principal Chief Architect, Health and Life Sciences, Red Hat
Ben Cushing
- Senior Principal Chief Architect, Health and Life Sciences
- Red Hat
For two decades, Ben Cushing has been a leader in emerging technology solutions across multiple industries and is committed to radical innovation in healthcare. Before joining Red Hat, he served as the Chief Technology Officer for MDLogix, a behavioral health IT firm supporting Johns Hopkins Medicine. There he architected and brought to market a behavioral health cloud platform for use with employer, healthcare, and education markets.

In addition to supporting analytics and operations at the National Institutes of Health for 6 years, Cushing had the opportunity to practice a scaled agile framework with Accenture where he led the technical architecture and design for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Electronic Health Management Platform, an industry leading Health Management and Care Coordination platform serving 9 million patients.

His tenure at Accenture began with the acquisition of Agilex, where he designed LSI solutions, developed systems to automate the Post-9/11 GI bill, and supported in-theater data collection and analytics tools. While at Agilex, Ben architected and led the development of a mobile Software Development Kit, still in use today by the VA to produce more than 60 applications.
Neena Porter Division Chief, Engineering, Solutions Architecture & IT Business Analytics Division (ESA-BAD), DHA
Neena Porter
- Division Chief, Engineering, Solutions Architecture & IT Business Analytics Division (ESA-BAD)
- DHA
Neena Porter is the Division Chief of Engineering, Solutions Architecture & IT Business Analytics Division (ESA-BAD), for the DHA.