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Veterans Cardiac Health and AI Model Predictions (V-CHAMPS) Challenge Winners

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the five winners of the Veterans Cardiac Health and AI Model Predictions (V-CHAMPS) Challenge. A team of data scientists and clinicians from the FDA, Veterans Health Administration, and National Institute of Standards and Technology dual-anonymously judged the entries to select the winners based on performance of model predictions when tested with real-world data.

The V-CHAMPS Challenge intends to encourage the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models to predict heart failure related outcomes -- including hospitalization, readmission, and mortality. The models use artificially generated health records, for example, from real health record datasets with sensitive information replaced with phantom data to preserve patient privacy.

This challenge is a collaboration between the following agencies:

• FDA’s Digital Health Center of Excellence,
• FDA Office of Digital Transformation’s precisionFDA,
• Veterans Health Administration Innovation Ecosystem, and
• UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

Questions?

If you have questions about the V-CHAMPS challenge, contact PrecisionFDA at precisionfda@fda.hhs.gov.