AI could help integrate health care, housing in Hawaii

Hawaii is “still learning” about how best to use the latest generative artificial intelligence technologies, but making progress through the help of a data task force and the work of state Chief Data Officer Rebecca Cai. Christine Sakuda, Hawaii’s chief information officer, tells StateScoop in a video interview that the state has at least two early AI projects that could indicate future work, including using AI to analyze the state’s call management systems to understand the types of problems people most commonly have, and an integrated strategy for health care, housing and homelessness, which she said is a pet project of Gov. Josh Green, a medical doctor who has worked in family medicine and emergency rooms in Hawaii. “How can we build a system that integrates that data together or enables data sharing so that you’re able to address the whole citizen and not just parts of the citizen,” she says.

This video was recorded on Oct. 1, 2024, at the National Association of State Chief Information Officers annual conference in New Orleans.