VA's AI 'to-go' delivery model is morphing into a platform - FedScoop

Interest in an artificial intelligence "to-go" delivery model is building with more than a dozen Department of Veterans Affairs sites looking to pilot modules, the agency's head of AI said Thursday. VA developed the initial module to assist its medical centers with COVID-19 individual risk prediction, but its hundreds of centers and thousands of facilities have other uses for the statistical models being tested, said Gil Alterovitz, VA's director of AI. Additional use cases haven't been chosen, but AI models will be packaged as embeddable software add-ons for rapid deployment based on the original. "We're now using that to generalize and essentially created a new platform so that artificial intelligence research and development can be added as modules in the future," Alterovitz said during day three of FedTalks, presented by FedScoop. Once the AI technology and health application have been vetted, any medical center will be able to access a module when VA shares a secure, internal weblink.