Department of Veterans Affairs

When launching a healthcare AI project, Charles Worthington, CTO and Chief AI Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, recommends consulting with technology users to understand the problems they encounter and are trying to solve.

An API increases the identification of veteran patients in non-VA hospitals and with outreach for patient-specific targeted benefit information, says Matthew McCay, MultiCare Health System's veteran advocacy manager and Epic's Brett Barker.

Zachary Arose, healthcare technology management chief at the Dayton VA Medical Center, says the VA has integrated an AI algorithm for early detection of lung nodules. AI is also adding administrative and bureaucratic efficiencies.

This week's top stories include a GAO report that found the VA did not establish performance measures and goals for migrated data quality, and the introduction of the  KardiaMobile Card, which is able to take a single-lead ECG in 30 seconds.

This week's top stories include the VA flagging unreliable IT infrastructure cost estimates for its EHR modernization program, a new Alzheimer's drug that could cost Medicaid more than $2 billion, and Amazon using radar for monitoring sleep.

Leaders from Verizon, VA, Microsoft and Medivis discuss how Project Convergence is bringing augmented reality and AI to the surgical theater, thanks to 5G technology, thereby enhancing care to veterans.