AI-enabled apps top ECRI’s list of health tech hazards in 2025
MedTech Dive December 9, 2024
Other health tech hazards on ECRI’s annual list include the unmet technology support needs of home care patients, cybersecurity threats and substandard or fraudulent medical devices.
Dive Brief:
- ECRI placed artificial intelligence-enabled applications at the top of its list of health technology hazards in 2025.
- ECRI, which released the list last week, said biases in the AI training data “can lead to disparate health outcomes or inappropriate responses,” adding that the technology can provide false or misleading outputs. The issues led the patient safety group to warn that putting too much trust in AI can result in inappropriate care decisions.
- Other top health technology hazards for 2025 include the unmet technology support needs of home care patients, cybersecurity...