HHS · no agency ID · record R0865
Rapid Intuitive Pathogen Surveillance (RIPS)
Department of Health and Human Services · HHS/FDA/HFP
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
- 2025-02 (month precision)Source: Feb-25
- 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
Identify and prioritize incoming sources of potential foodborne outbreaks, maximizing public health by reducing the time burden on regulators.
Expected benefits
Enhanced WGS signal detection capability allowing regulators to catch emerging foodborne outbreaks before it can cause widespread public harm.
System outputs
Probability that a environmental food source is regulated by the FDA.
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)
- Not reported
- 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
- No
- Demographic features
- k) None of the above
- Training and evaluation data
- Publicly available WGS metadata from NCBI.
- 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