FIE Session Featuring Oki Mek (HHS)

U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer to present how HHS AI Strategy and Implementation Plans   

About the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS):  HHS is the U.S. Government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. HHS accomplishes its mission through programs and initiatives that cover a wide spectrum of activities, serving and protecting Americans at every stage of life, from conception. HHS is responsible for almost a quarter of all Federal outlays and administers more grant dollars than all other Federal agencies combined.

Eleven operating divisions, including eight agencies in the U.S. Public Health Service and three human services agencies, administer HHS’s programs. While HHS is a domestic agency working to protect and promote the health and well-being of the American people, the interconnectedness of our world requires that HHS engage globally to fulfill its mission. In addition, staff divisions provide leadership, direction, and policy guidance to the Department.

HHS has the responsibility of regulating and overseeing the use of AI in the health industry. HHS’ regulatory responsibility spans all aspects of healthcare including standards for healthcare delivery, payments, medical device software, medical products and food, and privacy to ensure compliance, safety, and effectiveness. AI can be leveraged to reduce regulatory burdens and streamline processes that accelerate advancements in the health and wellbeing of Americans. To harness these benefits, HHS will continue to develop standards that inform policy and guidance for safe and transparent AI use and encourage agile and adaptable innovation.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services AI Strategy:  Oki Mek will discuss HHS AI Strategy and Implementation Plans. HHS recognizes that AI will be a critical enabler of its mission in the future. An enterprise AI strategy will provide direction and guidance in achieving the Department’s AI ambition. Together with its partners in academia, industry and government, HHS will leverage AI to solve previously unsolvable problems by continuing to lead advances in the health and wellbeing of the American people, responding to the use of AI across the health and human services ecosystem, and scaling trustworthy AI adoption across the Department.

To achieve HHS’s ambition, HHS will set forth an approach and focus areas intended to encourage and enable Department-wide familiarity, comfort, and fluency with AI technology and its potential (AI adoption), the application of best practices and lessons learned from piloting and implementing AI capabilities to additional domains and use cases across HHS (AI scaling), and increased speed at which HHS adopts and scales AI (AI acceleration).

Agenda

10:45am   –     11:00am          Virtual Registration for Members
11:00am     –   11:10am          Welcome and Introductions
11:10am     –   11:55am          Presentation / Q&A
11:55am     –   12:00pm          Wrap-up and Session Close

This session is being coordinated by the Federal Insights Exchange HHS Planning Committee.  

This event is open to the Federal IT community.  We also welcome members of the federal contracting community who are not currently ACT-IAC members.