ASI creates a laboratory for the implementation of AI and digital technologies in medicine

The Agency for Strategic Initiatives announced the creation of Russia's first digital laboratory. She will collect

best ideas and practices from IT companies in the systemhealthcare. The laboratory will be created as part of the initiative to implement the National Social Initiative (NSI) project together with the company DataMasters.

“Within the laboratory there will be accumulatedtasks aimed at improving the services of public medical institutions in Russian regions. For tasks that do not yet have implemented digital practices, solutions will be developed using artificial intelligence and data analysis technologies,”- notes Tatyana Zhuravleva, director of quality of life practices at ASI.

What are the main stages of the laboratory's work?

  • Submission of tasks from regions and digital practices from IT companies.
  • Task lab: identifying the most popular tasks, enriching them with data, matching digital practices with tasks.
  • Solution laboratory: data hackathon on tasks without solutions, revision and selection of the best cases.
  • Pilot implementation and replication of the most effective laboratory practices.

It is reported that the collection of practices and tasks will start on September 16.

“We know that successful digital practices todayare represented both by large IT companies and by small and medium-sized businesses, - explains Yana Kovalenko, director of projects of the Center for Digital Development of ASI. - Within the laboratory, it is important for us that the solutions that will be implemented meet the real problems of the regions and take into account the interests of each project participant. We invite IT companies to share their digital practices, and representatives of regional ministries and departments in the health sector to set tasks that have not yet found solutions. "- she emphasizes.

You can take part in the project by following the link.

On September 22, for representatives of regional ministries and departments in the field of health, laboratory experts will conduct an introductory webinar briefing, you can leave an application for participation in it by the link.

The National Social Initiative (NSI) isa mechanism to improve the quality of services and services in the social sphere, aimed at meeting human needs in various life situations and improving the quality of life. The main goal of introducing the NSI is to increase the satisfaction of citizens with social services, create opportunities and conditions for improving the quality of human life, satisfy the need to live a full life, regardless of the situation and health characteristics. The idea of ​​the NSI was first announced at a meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) in July 2020. As a result, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to implement the project throughout the country.

DataMasters is an ASI initiative aimed atcreation of conditions for the emergence and implementation of digital solutions using artificial intelligence technologies and big data analysis, the development of the IT and Data community and a culture of management based on data in various social spheres.

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