Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Archives

Hoppe is pictured sitting in a chair on stage and holding a microphone. The background is a conference hall lit in pink lights to match the color scheme of the event. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s acting chief AI officer Travis Hoppe speaks on stage at FedTalks in Washington on Sept. 18, 2025. (Lucas Cruz/EPNAC)

CDC official says generative AI already saved agency workers 41,000 hours

The agency was the first in government to roll out ChatGPT for all of its workers in 2023, CDC’s acting AI chief said Thursday. It’s yielded a…

Sep 18, 2025 By Madison Alder

The David J. Sencer CDC Museum in Atlanta, Ga. (CDC photo)

CDC data chief announces departure from agency

Alan Sim announced he’s leaving his role as CDC’s chief data officer.

Jul 7, 2025 By Madison Alder

Federal judge orders HHS, CDC, FDA to restore webpages, datasets

The three health agencies were directed to restore those websites as they were Jan. 30 by the end of the day Tuesday.

Feb 12, 2025 By Madison Alder

CDC data site briefly went dark as agency complies with Trump ‘gender ideology’ order

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s data site went offline Friday night as a deadline for compliance with a Trump order hit.

Jan 31, 2025 By Madison Alder

CDC’s generative AI pilots include school closure tracking, website updates

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is testing out use cases for generative AI and sharing its approach with other federal partners as it plans to…

Apr 5, 2024 By Madison Alder

HHS technology officials are seated on stage at AFCEA Bethesda's Health IT 2024 event. — A panel of Department of Health and Human Services technology officials discussed generative AI use within their agencies at AFCEA Bethesda’s Health IT 2024.

CDC eyeing ‘model cards’ to detail generative AI tool information

“Model cards” could provide context for using generative AI tools, an official told attendees at AFCEA Bethesda’s Health IT Summit 2024.

Jan 31, 2024 By Madison Alder

This illustration photograph taken with a macro lens shows The OpenAI company logo reflected in a human eye at a studio in Paris on June 6, 2023. (Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

HHS’s artificial intelligence use cases more than triple from previous year

The Department of Health and Human Services' annual AI use case inventory for fiscal 2023 includes 163 instances — up from 50 the previous year.

Aug 15, 2023 By Madison Alder

National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi speaks at the eHealth Exchange annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 15, 2022. (Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop)

HHS, health information networks expect rollout of trusted data exchange next year: Micky Tripathi

About 30% of hospitals remain unconnected to a health information network, but the implementation of network-to-network interoperability may change that.

Dec 22, 2022 By Dave Nyczepir

U.S. Sen. Robert Casey (D-Penn.) speaks during a news conference on health care September 25, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images).

Special committee calls for ‘reboot’ of federal technology accessibility oversight

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act hasn't been updated since 1998, and in the meantime departments like VA have committed hundreds of thousands of violations.

Dec 14, 2022 By Dave Nyczepir

Blood specimen collection tubes are seen in the laboratory of Bellville Medical Center, in Bellville, Texas, September 1, 2021. (Photo by FRANCOIS PICARD/AFP via Getty Images).

CDC awards Palantir consolidated disease surveillance contract worth $443M

Public health infrastructure the tech company deployed at the height of the pandemic is being scaled for generalize response to diseases like Monkeypox.

Dec 7, 2022 By Dave Nyczepir