McKnight’s Senior Living July 18, 2024
Regulating generative artificial intelligence, or GAI, devices in caregiving settings will present unique challenges to senior living operators, policymakers, software developers and others. That is the conclusion in a recent opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine. David Blumenthal, MD, former president of the Commonwealth Fund, and Bakul Patel of Google suggest that new standards and rules should be put in place to ensure optimal care.
For operators of senior living and other long-term care facilities, their proposed remedies could dramatically affect the way AI-driven medical tools are implemented and relied on.
Specifically, the authors propose that GAI tools undergo a system of training, testing, licensing and supervision akin to the rigorous standards clinicians must meet. This...
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