The agency’s acting chief artificial intelligence officer discussed the future of AI in healthcare delivery.
OCTOBER 8, 2024 Leaders in the federal healthcare space revealed ongoing and future artificial intelligence use cases and policy at NVIDIA’s AI Summit in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, emphasizing the benefits predictive softwares can have on health outcomes.
Much like other federal agencies, HHS is aiming to help spur and harness ongoing innovation with AI tools while applying appropriate guardrails, especially when leveraging these tools alongside sensitive clinical data.
“Data is inherently biased by the healthcare system that we live in today,” he said. “So those who are left out of the healthcare system today or have poor healthcare because they have less insurance or no insurance at all, that’s all reflected in the data, and machines are unfortunately going to pick that up.” – Micky Tripathi, the national coordinator for health IT and acting chief artificial intelligence officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Belinda Seto, the deputy director of The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation’s medical research agency’s Office of Data Science and Sharing, underscored the need for a robust AI ethics perspective. She added that as her agency looks to leverage AI in mission areas like processing and analyzing disparate data types — such as data from genomic research and electronic health records — creating a culture of ethics in using AI tools is paramount.
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