Healthcare DIVE March 18, 2024
Regulators seeking to erect guardrails around AI are facing a Sisyphean task, experts said at HIMSS. How do you oversee something that is constantly changing?
Technology developers, electronic health records vendors and hospitals are grappling with how to govern artificial intelligence as futuristic algorithms become increasingly pervasive in the operations and delivery of patient care.
Growing AI adoption, coupled with a lack of comprehensive supervision from the federal government, is leading some to worry the industry may have too much latitude in building and implementing the technologies, experts said last week at the HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida.
Hospitals and developers say they’re being careful, creating a forest of internal controls and standards groups to ensure AI tools — including...