As the healthcare industry integrates artificial intelligence (AI) into its business, and evidence grows demonstrating the potential for AI to be transformational in healthcare, policymakers are studying the technology to understand how it might benefit or harm the health system and the people it serves.
In establishing a technology system that is useful, effective, and trusted, it is essential to build a foundation that ensures privacy, security, and data integrity. That is true for any technology application, and it is especially so for AI.
In this alert, we explore key highlights from congressional hearings in November and December 2023 that examined these and other issues regarding AI in healthcare; then we consider what these inquiries may mean for efforts at regulation and policymaking in 2024.
Our focus is on three particular hearings: Read more
