{"id":153290,"date":"2024-02-17T11:20:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=153290"},"modified":"2024-02-17T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T16:20:45","slug":"using-artificial-intelligence-to-assist-with-veteran-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=153290","title":{"rendered":"Using artificial intelligence to assist with veteran healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Veteran-in-VA-hospital-robots-AI-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-153291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Veteran-in-VA-hospital-robots-AI-01-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Veteran-in-VA-hospital-robots-AI-01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Veteran-in-VA-hospital-robots-AI-01-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Veteran-in-VA-hospital-robots-AI-01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Veteran-in-VA-hospital-robots-AI-01-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Veteran-in-VA-hospital-robots-AI-01.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The VA is already utilizing artificial intelligence to assist with veteran healthcare to include predicting cancer risks, predicting veteran suicide risk, as well as helping with diagnostic accuracy. A House Committee on Veterans Affairs subcommittee queried representatives of the VA on how artificial intelligence could be better employed with veterans&#8217; healthcare service.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From Military Times:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;VA is committed to protecting veterans&#8217; data, while responsibly harnessing the promise of AI to better serve veterans,&#8221; said Charles Worthington, the chief technology officer and chief artificial intelligence officer in VA&#8217;s Office of Information and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>VA is already leveraging AI in a number of ways, from enhancing diagnostic accuracy and efficiency in predicting cancer risks to an initiative to identify veterans with the highest level of suicide risk.<\/p>\n<p>While the department believes in AI&#8217;s enormous potential to provide better health care, quicker benefits decisions and more secure systems, a few lawmakers questioned the best practices that officials are using or plan to take on when employing the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., who last month led a separate subcommittee hearing on data privacy and artificial intelligence at VA, asked about the department&#8217;s responsibility to notify and receive informed consent from veterans when their information is used with an &#8220;AI model,&#8221; or when an analysis was completed by AI rather than a person.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Military Times has additional information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2024\/02\/15\/lawmakers-explore-how-artificial-intelligence-can-better-assist-vets\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VA is already utilizing artificial intelligence to assist with veteran healthcare to include predicting cancer &hellip; <a title=\"Using artificial intelligence to assist with veteran healthcare\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=153290\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Using artificial intelligence to assist with veteran healthcare<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}