Where Federal Health Priorities Converge
Abt is the Lead Platinum sponsor of this year’s POC Healthcare Summit. Our team joins federal health leaders to discuss shared priorities: modernizing health systems, using data and AI/SI responsibly, expanding access to care, and delivering accountable results.
Abt has worked alongside federal health agencies on these challenges for decades. We have evaluated major Medicare and Medicaid reforms, analyzed complex health data, and strengthened care delivery across federal health programs.
In our panel, AI/SI Governance and the Role of Policy Expertise, we will explore how agencies can bring policy, program integrity, legal, operational, and technical expertise together throughout the development and use of these systems.
Our Panel
AI Governance and the Role of Policy Expertise
Thursday, December 3, 2026, 10:30 to 11:30 am ET
Moderated by Kristin Heck, JD, MBA, Principal Solutions Architect, Abt Global
Panelists:
- CDR Darshan Thota, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Joint Trauma System
- Ricky Clark, Director, Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC), National Institutes of Health
Federal health programs use AI/SI and advanced analytics to detect fraud, waste, and abuse, support clinical care, and speed up operations. As these technologies move from retrospective analysis into payment, oversight, and enforcement decisions, the panelists will explore:
- What governance structures best involve investigators, policymakers, attorneys, clinicians, program officials, and data scientists at the right times?
- Where should AI/SI outputs sit within investigative, payment, care, and enforcement processes, and where should human review happen?
- How should agencies define normal behavior across different state rules, payment models, and care settings, and cut false positives without weakening detection?
- How should we measure success, when recoveries are closely tracked—but false positives, provider burden, appeals, and delayed payments often are not?
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