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    {"title" :"Health Tech Sprint Aims at Improving Care Access and Experience","deck" : "Federal agencies and technology teams work together to pilot digital tools for artificial intelligence and health innovation.","summary" : "This sprint is designed to improve care by assisting in access to novel therapeutics and improving clinical trials.","date" : "2018-11-02T10:40:00-05:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"gil-alterovitz" : "Gil Alterovitz, PhD","justin-koufopoulos" : "Justin Koufopoulos","kristen-honey" : "Kristen Honey, PhD"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2018/11/2018-11-02-health-tech-sprint-aims-at-improving-care-access-experience.md","slug" : "health-tech-sprint-aims-at-improving-care-access-experience","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2018/11/02/health-tech-sprint-aims-at-improving-care-access-experience/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eStarting October 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.presidentialinnovationfellows.gov\"\u003ePresidential Innovation Fellows\u003c/a\u003e (PIF) kicked-off and will lead a 14-week tech sprint with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/\"\u003eU.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u003c/a\u003e (HHS) and other digital enthusiasts.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe goal of this tech sprint is to transform \u003ca href=\"https://www.data.gov/\"\u003efederal open data\u003c/a\u003e from HHS, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.va.gov/\"\u003eU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs\u003c/a\u003e (VA), and other agencies into digital tools. Modeled after \u003ca href=\"https://opportunity.census.gov/\"\u003eThe Opportunity Project\u003c/a\u003e (TOP) at \u003ca href=\"https://www.commerce.gov/\"\u003eU.S. Department of Commerce\u003c/a\u003e, the \u003ca href=\"http://tophealth.github.io\"\u003eTOP Health tech sprint\u003c/a\u003e is specifically designed to improve the patient experience, for example, by assisting in novel therapeutics accessibility and improving clinical trials.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresidential Innovation Fellows will lead a cohort of tech teams that are developing an ecosystem that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to help patients find new types of treatments. Several unique aspects of this tech sprint include cross-agency participation to create an ecosystem around a specific challenge, AI-centric data design, iteratively released data for training and testing, health-specific cohort, and access to specialized resources to foster a new AI-centric ecosystem. As part of this process, several industry partners have been chosen to participate.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"tech-sprint\"\u003eTech Sprint\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFederal open data is a key driver for health innovation. In addition to research and development dollars, the federal government provides key datasets to startups, academia, and industry. In this tech sprint, this federal open-data ecosystem is used as a platform for industry to create value for Americans. Participating tech teams will pilot use of novel federal open-data datasets designed specifically for this sprint, build tools around them, and present results at a public “Demo Day” event in 2019 with leadership across agencies. The results will also provide feedback on the types of dataset creation and design that federal agencies and others can do to promote use of AI and data in this space, and in general.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"artificial-intelligence-ai-for-novel-therapeutics-accessibility\"\u003eArtificial Intelligence (AI) for Novel Therapeutics Accessibility\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this sprint, teams will focus on using a collection of specially released datasets for training Artificial intelligence is transforming healthcare. The promise of AI is to provide better experiences for patients, unburden physicians, and drive down the costs of drugs. Already, one is beginning to see an exciting ecosystem of software companies building technologies and brands that can help America’s health systems.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNovel therapeutics, such as those under development in clinical trials, are often a treatment option for those patients with serious and life threatening diseases such as cancer. Increasing patient awareness of clinical trials is believed to be a factor in reducing time for participant recruitment, a very large cost categories in clinical trials. Thus, applying AI to help patients find clinical trials studying novel therapeutics, may have the potential to improve patient care and, by aiding in recruitment, reduce drug development costs.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n        src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/bot.jpg\"alt=\"3D rendering of a robot learning on an education HUD (head-up display) interface with mathematical and chemical equations.\"/\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhonlamaiPhoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"ai-centric-data-design\"\u003eAI-Centric Data Design\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the past year, the Presidential Innovation Fellows program has been working with the National Institutes of Health and others on reducing the costs of clinical trials and improving the patient experience. A key outcome of this work has been the creation of AI ecosystem-empowering datasets that can form the foundation for training and testing AI for improving patient access to novel therapeutics.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresidential Innovation Fellows engage with federal agencies to help solve some of their most pressing challenges around artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, product management, and organizational design—all to improve the lives of the American people. A key goal of this project is to convene federal expertise, patients and user advocates, and technology organizations.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe AI project will be done in parallel with another tech sprint track on Lyme and tick-borne\ndiseases, led by Dr. Kristen Honey and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/cto/\"\u003eHHS Office of the CTO\u003c/a\u003e. The latter will focus on\nleveraging crowd- and patient-based data insights.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"tech-organizations-selected\"\u003eTech Organizations Selected\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe AI ecosystem project will be piloted by these tech organizations: Flatiron Health, Microsoft Healthcare, Oracle, Philips (Research), Rush Medical, and TrialX (in collaboration with the Global Lyme Alliance).\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lyme and tick-borne diseases track will include: TickTracker, LivLyme Foundation, and Clyme Health.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"getting-involved\"\u003eGetting Involved\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe time for leveraging AI in improving access to novel therapeutics is now. If you are interested in learning more, downloading the ecosystem data, being a data steward, sharing experiences, or learning about the tech sprint’s results, please visit the site at: \u003ca href=\"https://tophealth.github.io/\"\u003etophealth.github.io\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo contact us on the overall TOP Health tech sprint, please email the Presidential Innovation Fellows, \u003ca href=\"mailto:gil.alterovitz@pif.gov\"\u003egil.alterovitz@pif.gov\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"mailto:justin.koufopoulos@pif.gov\"\u003ejustin.koufopoulos@pif.gov\u003c/a\u003e, or the HHS Office of the CTO, \u003ca href=\"mailto:cto@hhs.gov\"\u003ecto@hhs.gov\u003c/a\u003e. Please use subject line: \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTOP Health: inquiry from DigitalGov blog\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDisclaimer\u003c/strong\u003e: All references to specific brands and/or companies are used only for illustrative purposes and do not imply endorsement by the U.S. federal government or any federal government agency._\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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