Forbes November 1, 2023
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has issued a call for two different types of health-related artificial intelligence tools on the heels of President Joe Biden’s AI executive order issued this week. That order aims to place guardrails on the use and development of AI to protect both national security and society (read our colleague David Jean’s dispatch from the White House here).
The VA’s “tech sprint” is focused on reducing healthcare worker burnout by offering a combined $1 million in prizes for companies competing to build automated note-taking tools for doctors, as well as software that can combine medical records from different sources. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also launched a campaign for hospitals to tackle...