Becker's Health IT: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality launched a $7.95 million prize initiative Oct. 7 aimed at using AI to speed medical evidence reviews and expand the use of federal healthcare data.

The agency, part of HHS, is calling the effort the Super Intelligence for Healthcare Improvement Initiative. It includes two competitions focused on clinical evidence synthesis and healthcare research, quality and safety.

The larger component, the Clinical Evidence Synthesis Transformation Challenge, offers up to $5.85 million in prizes, including a $5.35 million grand prize, for tools that could reduce the time required to evaluate medical evidence from a year or more to hours.

Finalists will be evaluated on factors including accuracy, throughput, reproducibility, usability and ease of operation.

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