Artificial Intelligence Technology (AIT) Sub-Committee
The primary activities of AIT are:
- Initial and ongoing review of submitted artificial intelligence product requests that impact the enterprise, outpatient clinics, and external referral sites.
- Requests must come through the AVAIL project submission process and present to AVAIL Leadership Sub-Committee for review prioritization.
- Determining the need to integrate artificial intelligence products into existing VUMC information technology structures.
- Reviewing artificial intelligence enhancement requests such as programmatic initiatives and their alignment with VUMC's established guiding principles and VUMC's Pillar Goals.
- Discussing the appropriateness of complex artificial intelligence requests for the enterprise and coming to a consensus on the request's priority and the technical and fiscal/resource feasibility.
- Developing financial pro-forma documentation for solutions under consideration for implementation:
- The AI Technology Committee will act as a sponsor with VUMC Finance and business planning leadership on behalf of the AI projects under financial review, intending to develop a consensus-based single source of truth analysis convincing to all stakeholders.
- Triaging AI project development or enhancement requests to the appropriate sub-committees for review and initial prioritization.
- When deemed appropriate and/or necessary, developing and guiding pragmatic efficacy trials of developed or purchased AI applications to test the utility of the product and the benefit to the staff, caregivers, and/or patients.
- Supporting innovation and research related to artificial intelligence efforts at VUMC.
- Reviewing and resolving project assessment, implementation, and performance issues escalated by members and workgroup efforts.
- Assist in decision-making and prioritization in the face of limited resources.
- Establishing a standardized communication plan to keep the enterprise and/or specific entities and departments informed of ongoing project status and pending developments and implementations explicitly related to AI.
- Establishing and maintaining a communication process to keep steering committee leaders across the enterprise up to date on artificial intelligence work progress.
- Establishing educational priorities that include a standardized implementation strategy for AI projects.
- Collaborating/communicating with VUMC's higher level informatics governance structure as AVAIL evolves to ensure a consistent AI stance and collective AI voice across all VUMC constituent parts.
- Monitoring and measuring performance for completed projects. This includes reviewing reports from post-implementation lessons learned sessions.
- Specific attention to sunsetting and removing projects' capabilities that are no longer useful or utilized.
- Establishing meeting times, locations, and agenda items for the AVAIL Steering Committee review and development meetings.
- This AVAIL Planning group will direct the work and priorities of the AVAIL Executive Steering Committee meeting with a subset of committee members and other individual contributors.