Becker's Healthcare October 23, 2024
Despite concerns from some medical experts about physicians using artificial intelligence to draft MyChart responses to patients, the technology remains unregulated.
At an October healthcare AI conference at Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania, a moderator asked HHS Acting Chief AI Officer Micky Tripathi, PhD, about the regulatory process for technologies like the AI feature in Epic’s MyChart.
“There isn’t really a federal approval process it would have to go through,” Dr. Tripathi said, according to the Penn Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics’ Oct. 22 coverage of the event. “It doesn’t qualify...