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AI Assistant for Public Health Staff Queries

Accountable

Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH)

Functional Modes

Creating (Generative AI)

Human decides

Purpose

Inform

Input Dataset

About behaviour Identifiable data

Algorithm or Model

Language Models

Output Dataset

Generated content Anonymized data

Details

HELIX is a generative AI tool used by staff at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to ask questions and receive text responses, either from a general-purpose AI model or from a set of approved agency documents. Staff may share the outputs with the public. The system is built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI using the GPT-4o model, and training data is proprietary to the vendor.