HHS Launches AI Strategy to Modernize Operations
Summary
On December 4, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a comprehensive AI Strategy aimed at making AI "available to the federal workforce, and integrating it across internal operations, research, and public health." The plan, led by Acting Chief AI Officer Clark Minor, is built on five pillars:
- Ensure governance and risk management for public trust.
- Design infrastructure and platform for user needs.
- Promote workforce development and burden reduction for efficiency.
- Foster health research and reproducibility through gold-standard science.
- Enable care and public health delivery modernization for better outcomes.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. states that HHS will be "the template for the utilization of AI." The plan fulfills certain directives from the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan, AI-related executive orders and guidance from the Office of Management and Budget. The initiative’s "OneHHS" framework is intended to foster collaboration among divisions, including the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One goal of this approach is to develop the OneHHS AI-integrated Commons to provide shared data resources (where legally permissible), computing power, models and testbed environments.
