Health Care Blog January 5, 2026
On December 19th, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a Request for Information seeking to harness artificial intelligence (“AI”) to deflate health care costs and make America healthy again.
As described herein, AI can be used in many dimensions to help lower healthcare costs and improve care. However, to achieve significant breakthroughs with AI, HHS will need to completely revamp the regulatory approach to drug discovery and development.
Dimension #1. Incorporation of AI into Drug Discovery
The biggest benefit to the healthcare industry’s performance from AI is achievable from drug discovery. Accounting for the costs of failures, the average FDA drug approval costs society almost $3 billion and takes decades to reach the market from its inception...
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