HHS’s reported AI uses soar, including pilots to address staff ‘shortage’
The department's 2025 tally of AI uses continues a trend of dramatic annual increases, adding deployments for unaccompanied minors data as well as agentic AI uses.
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CDC sent RIF notices, then pulled some back. The result is chaos, advocates and workers say
Roughly half of the reduction-in-force notices sent to CDC staff last week were rolled back, workers and advocates said. The error adds to existing administrative disorder.
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…
CDC data chief announces departure from agency
Alan Sim announced he’s leaving his role as CDC’s chief data officer.
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.
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.
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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…
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.
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.
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.