Politico October 18, 2024
TECH MAZE
A coalition of leading health systems and tech firms is pushing forward with its plan to self-regulate artificial intelligence in health care.
The Coalition for Health AI, whose members include the Mayo Clinic, Microsoft and Johns Hopkins, plans a network of quality assurance labs to vet AI tools. Today, it laid out what the labs will need to do.
The group says the labs will evaluate whether AI tools:
— Function effectively and can be used in research
— Deliver biased results or perform differently across patient populations
— Provide ongoing performance monitoring
CHAI says it will accredit labs based on their capabilities. Some may conduct pre-deployment evaluations and audits, others post-deployment monitoring. Some labs may be able...