CIO Whitepaper – Artificial Intelligence

What do Summit—the World’s most powerful supercomputer—special purpose Artificial Intelligence (AI) machines, and Quantum Computing have to do with improving the Veteran experience at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)? These are the technologies that VA will use as part of the VA Interagency Agreement (IAA) and partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), supporting leading edge analytics around suicide prevention and precision medicine. This partnership will drive improvements to natural language processing, image analytics, and next generation big data storage and retrieval of multimodal (e.g. structured, unstructured, image, and genomic) data.

Information Technology (IT) Modernization isn’t just a buzz word at VA — it’s a commitment to fundamentally changing the way we design, implement, and deliver innovative technology solutions. Accordingly, VA is exploring AI solutions that enable us to provide better care and services to Veterans.