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.Continue Reading Senate HELP Committee Ranking Member Requests Stakeholder Feedback on AI and Health Data Privacy and Security Policies
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Coalition for Health AI Introduces Blueprint for Trustworthy AI in Healthcare
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.Continue Reading Coalition for Health AI Introduces Blueprint for Trustworthy AI in Healthcare
AI in Health Care: AI Bill of Rights, Future Regulations, and What Business Should Consider Now
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.Continue Reading AI in Health Care: AI Bill of Rights, Future Regulations, and What Business Should Consider Now