Artificial Intelligence

On October 30, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order (“EO”) 14110 entitled, “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence,” which establishes a policy framework to manage the risks of artificial intelligence (“AI”), to direct agency action to regulate the use of health AI systems and tools, and to guide AI innovation across all sectors, including in the health and human services sectors. OMB simultaneously released a draft memorandum that would specifically direct department and agency action by establishing new agency requirements in AI governance, innovation, and risk management and adopting specific minimum risk management practices for uses of AI. OMB is seeking public comment on the memorandum by December 5, 2023, which includes a list of questions requesting feedback on specific issues.

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On October 30, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order (“EO”) 14110 entitled the, “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence,” which establishes a policy framework to manage the risks of artificial intelligence (“AI”); to direct agency action to regulate the use of health AI systems and tools; and to guide AI

Last week, Ranking Member Bill Cassidy (R-LA) of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (“HELP”) issued two separate requests for information (“RFIs”) asking for stakeholder feedback on artificial intelligence (“AI”) and health data privacy policy issues to identify current challenges and receive recommendations to inform potential legislation.  With deadlines set for the end of September, each RFI provides a short window for organizations to submit comments.

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On August 19, 2023, the World Health Organization (“WHO”) announced a new initiative to operationalize the implementation of the Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025 and to further enable digital health system transformation. The Global Initiative on Digital Health (“GIDH”) is a WHO managed network of stakeholders organized to facilitate the implementation of WHO norms and standards for digital health system transformation and to enable a global ecosystem to promote country capacity and strengthen international cooperation in digital health. The GIDH aims to amplify recent and past gains in global digital health while strengthening mutual accountability to enhance the impact of future investments.

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On April 4, The Coalition for Health AI (“CHAI”) released the “Blueprint for Trustworthy AI Implementation Guidance and Assurance for Healthcare,” (“CHAI Blueprint”) which addresses the lack of industry-accepted standard governing the development and implementation of artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools in health care, outlines key elements to establish standards on trustworthy AI, issues recommendations for health systems to deploy AI tools in clinical settings, and proposes specifications to be included in a potential assurance standards guide.

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Rapid developments and competition in artificial intelligence (AI) will drive proliferation of new AI technologies in health care in the coming years, along with a number of legal and ethical issues.

ChatGPT 3.5 created a huge splash, rife with controversy, when it was released in November 2022. Launched by the San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, ChatGPT is a natural language processing (NLP) model (a type of machine learning (ML)), that automatically learns and recognizes patterns. ChatGPT uses a neural network architecture to generate human-sounding responses to questions, providing users with large amounts of potentially useful information in seconds. According to a recent review, ChatGPT demonstrated that it was capable of passing all three parts of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), which tests medical students on topics including the basic sciences, clinical knowledge and patient treatment and diagnosis, without any specialized training. ChatGPT also showed proficiency in medical charting, diagnosing, and performing nonclinical tasks. OpenAI recently launched ChatGPT 4.0, which offers expanded capabilities and improved performance on various professional and academic assessments.

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