AI in Healthcare July 16, 2019
Dave Pearson

The VA’s inaugural director of artificial intelligence believes the technology is “the only way” to move healthcare closer to its perennial dual goals of reducing costs and providing better care.

“AI is key to really taking advantage of [big] data to help vets and potentially others as well,” says Gil Alterovitz, PhD, who was installed last week.

Speaking on his guiding vision with a writer in the VA’s communications division, Alterovitz pointed to the Million Veteran Program (MVP) as a proven example of how the VA can leverage data to improve health at the population level.

MVP has gathered genomic and health data on more than 750,000...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Physician, Provider, Technology, VA / DoD
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