The Chief AI Officer is emerging as a critical C-suite role and executives are moving quickly to build the skills needed to deliver on its responsibilities.

FLM Haiti, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit that runs the clinic abroad and provides education, literacy training, and other services to people in Haiti, partnered with a team of Heinz College graduate students this spring to develop a better system for documenting patient care.

In collaboration with a hospital, researchers examined problems related to the timing and scheduling of surgeries and patients' stays in recovery units. They developed an integrated elective surgery assignment, sequencing, and scheduling problem (ESASSP) and devised new ways to solve it.

Technology has supercharged fraud. The ruses are ancient, but the tools scammers use are cutting edge.

This summer, graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy put their AI skills to the test, tackling challenges that matter in health care, policy, and beyond. Their projects have real stakes, real budgets, and real consequences.

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Interorganizational collaborations are increasingly used to tackle some of society’s most complex challenges. In health care, this takes many forms, such as strategic alliances, interorganizational networks, joint ventures, and public-private partnerships.

From analyzing parole violation patterns in Pennsylvania's state corrections system to mapping language barriers across Allegheny County, four Heinz College students spent their summer tackling some of the thorniest challenges in public service—armed with SQL queries, statistical models, and a healthy dose of optimism about what data can accomplish when harnessed to solve real-world problems.

Each year, low-income earners can reduce the taxes they owe by hundreds or thousands of dollars through an IRS tax credit. But a lack of information about the benefit has caused many eligible taxpayers not to claim it, leaving a collective $7 billion on the table annually.

Considerations related to environmental justice have risen to the forefront of policy discussions over the location of long-term infrastructure like power plants. These discussions have centered on ensuring equitable siting of planned infrastructure, but rarely account for its consequences over the long run.