Healthcare IT News December 20, 2023
Leaders at ONC’s annual meeting were asked whether they’re confident that federal agencies and the private sector can work together to foster innovation while protecting against bias and safety risks. Here’s what they had to say.
The promise of artificial intelligence in healthcare is enormous – with algorithms able to find answers to big questions in big data, and automation helping clinicians in so many other ways.
On the other hand, there are “examples after examples,” according to the HHS Office of Civil Rights, of AI and machine learning models trained on bad or biased data and resulting in discrimination that can make it ineffective or even unsafe for patients.
The federal government and health IT industry are both...