Fagen Wasanni Technologies July 18, 2023
Big businesses that stand to benefit from advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare are resisting proposed federal rules aimed at improving oversight and fairness of AI tools used in patient care decision-making.
Among those opposing the regulations are industry giants Google and Amazon, as well as major healthcare providers, insurers, and medical software vendors. The focus of their opposition lies in tighter restrictions on the use of AI by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
The proposed rules by the agency suggest that developers of electronic health records and other health software should provide users with information regarding the training and testing of predictive models that rely on data from their systems or are hosted...