A leading healthcare association is asking U.S. regulators to create standards and benchmarks to assess the impact of medical devices and tools that use artificial intelligence (AI).
According to Newsweek Magazine, the American Hospital Association (AHA) has recommended that the FDA support the development of an AI policy framework that would support future technology innovations while also ensuring “appropriate safeguards to protect privacy and patient security.”
The AHA notes that, in the last three years alone, the use of AI-enabled devices in healthcare settings has seen significant growth and that their use can improve the efficiency and delivery of patient care. Specifically, there has been increased use in diagnostic imaging and radiology, in which the technology can promptly identify image patterns and anomalies that human inspection might not observe.
The AHA represents hospitals and healthcare networks across the U.S. and includes nearly 5,000 hospitals and 43,000 individual members.
Read more at Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/aha-recommends-ai-enabled-medical-tools-safegaurds-access-health-11142618
