HHS · no agency ID · record R0677

Nowcasting Injury Trends

Department of Health and Human Services · HHS/CDC

Overview

Development stage: DeployedSource: c) Deployed – The use case is being actively authorized or utilized to support the functions or mission of an agency.
High-impact designation: Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact
Impact justification: Not reported
Start date: 2022-01 (month precision)Source: Jan-22
Withheld from public reporting: NoSource: a) No

Mission

Topic area: Health and Medical
Operational functions: No function tag matched Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

Providing real-time estimates of injury and death trends to enhance situational awareness and expedite surveillance and research activities, especially when gold standard data are delayed.

Expected benefits

Enables timelier identification and investigation of emerging injury trends, improving the speed and effectiveness of public health surveillance and response when gold standard data are not yet available.

System outputs

An internal-facing, interactive dashboard that provides week-to-week national nowcasts of injury death trends, using multiple traditional and non-traditional datasets and a multi-stage machine learning pipeline.

Technology

AI classification: Classical / predictive MLSource: Classical/Predictive Machine Learning: Models trained on data to make predictions or classifications based on identified patterns or relatio…
System name(s): EDAV (Enterprise Data Analytics and Visualization Platform)
Custom-developed code: Yes
Public source code: Not reported

Sourcing

How it was built: Developed in-houseSource: b) Developed in-house
Vendor (as reported): Not reported
Vendors (standardized): None on the standard list

A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.

Data and privacy

Involves PII: No
Privacy Impact Assessment: Not reported
Authorization to Operate: Yes
Demographic features: k) None of the above
Training and evaluation data: Emergency Department data from the National Syndromic Surveillance Program.
Federal Data Catalog: Not reported

Governance

0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.

Pre-deployment testingNo answer reported

AI impact assessmentNo answer reported

Independent reviewNo answer reported

Ongoing monitoringNo answer reported

Operator trainingNo answer reported

Fail-safeNo answer reported

Appeal processNo answer reported

User and public consultationNo answer reported

Potential impacts and how they were identified

Not reported