ARPA-H Announces New Funding related to AI-Enabled Medical Tools

Written by: Paige L. Cappelli

The U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) announced new funding for a “program to help AI-enabled medical tools maintain peak performance.” The new funding is through the Performance and Reliability Evaluation for Continuous Modifications and Usability of Artificial Intelligence (PRECISE-AI) program. The announcement states:

ARPA-H Director Renee Wegrzyn, Ph.D. stated “PRECISE-AI is addressing a growing gap in ensuring AI tools used in clinical decision-making are accurate, safe, and robust in real-world settings” and that “in doing so, ARPA-H is creating a foundation of trust between clinicians and these AI tools, which will further expand AI’s potential in improving health outcomes for all Americans.”

PRECISE-AI plans to address five technical areas (“TA”):

More information regarding PRECISE-AI can be found on its program page here. A draft program solicitation to bring together experts to develop the TAs, having a response date of January 15, 2025, can be found here. The full announcement by ARPA-H, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), can be found here.

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