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VA | AI

National AI Institute

VA National Artificial Intelligence Institute

VHA’s National AI Institute (NAII) aims to improve the health and well-being of our Veterans and empower our workforce by harnessing the potential of AI and emerging technologies to deliver safe, effective, and trustworthy solutions.

NAII – sitting within the Veteran Health Administration’s (VHA) new Digital Health Office (DHO) – is focused on operationalizing AI technologies that improve Veteran health outcomes and alleviate workload burden. NAII is also coordinating VHA-wide compliance with evolving federal regulatory oversight of trustworthy AI.  

VA is committed to creating and implementing AI solutions for the health and well-being of our nation’s Veterans that are transparent, mitigate bias, and adhere to the highest level of oversight.

Building Collaboration

In 2021, NAII led the development of the VA Artificial Intelligence Strategy, coordinating the collaboration of more than 20 VA offices. Consequently, VA was one of the first five federal agencies to develop an official AI strategy. 

As AI demand and capability grows, NAII is continuing to build partnerships across government, industry, and the research community to scale AI product delivery across VHA.

Through its ongoing tech sprint program, NAII is piloting the first AI tools that reduce healthcare provider burnout by automating administrative tasks.  

Artificial Intelligence Strategy
This image describes the scope of the structural elements of AI at VA: 9.1 million Veterans served - VA is the largest integrated healthcare system in the U.S. 2.2 million telehealth episodes/year - More than 727,000 Veterans are served by telehealth/year. 1,200+ medical facilities - Veterans receive care across all U.S. states and territories. 120,000 clinicians - The majority of U.S. doctors and nurses do at least some of their training at VA. 1,000,000+ genomic donations - VA has the largest genomic database tied to medical records in the world. 10 billion medical images - VA has one of the world’s largest medical image repositories.

“Improving the health and well-being of our Veterans and empowering our workforce by harnessing the potential of AI and emerging technologies to deliver safe, effective, and trustworthy solutions. 

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