VA · VA-25-2291 · record R2355

Hospital Acquired Infections

Department of Veterans Affairs · VHA: Veterans Health Administration

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: Not reported
Withheld from public reporting: Not reported

Mission

Topic area: Health and Medical
Operational functions: Summarization, Clinical and medical Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

Automate the identification of hospital acquired infections to meet VA reporting requirements to reduce the reporting burden on health care provider staff. We are creating a generative AI pipeline that will read through structured and unstructured data to identify the patients with central lines who got an infection during an in-patient stay at a VA facility. There is no fine-tuning with this system. The patients identified are graded by humans and compared to known cases to assess accuracy.

Expected benefits

Increased efficiency in healthcare outcomes

System outputs

PowerBI Reports summarize hospital acquired infections.

Technology

AI classification: Natural language processingSource: Natural Language Processing: AI that processes, interprets, and shares information in human language.
System name(s): Not reported
Custom-developed code: Yes
Public source code: Not reported

Sourcing

How it was built: Purchased from vendorSource: a) Purchased from a vendor
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: Not reported
Privacy Impact Assessment: Not reported
Authorization to Operate: Not reported
Demographic features: Not reported
Training and evaluation data: Not reported
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