It’s been a whirlwind four months on any number of policy fronts since President Donald Trump took office for his second term, and healthcare and health IT are no exceptions.In the first 100-plus days…
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California legislators are getting on the AI regulation train. A bill was introduced earlier this week that would prevent AI systems from calling themselves health professionals. Mia Bonta represents California’s 18th Assembly District, which…
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Industry-Government Consensus Building
The healthcare sector is witnessing a remarkable convergence between industry innovators and government regulators in defining and implementing responsible artificial intelligence. Brian Anderson, CEO of Coalition for Healthcare AI, emphasizes the critical…
This month, President-elect Donald Trump appointed former Paypal executive and Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist David Sacks as the White House’s first-ever czar for AI and cryptocurrency. Sacks will be in charge of guiding policy…
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Science and technology secretary Peter Kyle has announced the launch of a regulatory office, which will support the healthcare sector to deploy AI innovations safely.
The Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) aims to reduce the burden…
“The bottom line is that AI regulation is really about transparency. We don’t know everything.”
Those words were spoken by Luke Ralston — who has been a biomedical engineer and scientific reviewer at the FDA…
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Hundreds of nurses gathered at Kaiser Permanente’s San Francisco Medical Center this week to protest against the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare.The demonstration was organised by the California Nurses Association, who believe…
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The new EU AI Act will have global reach – and a big impact on the medtech and life sciences sector. By Sharon Lamb, Deniz Tschammler and Lorraine Maisnier-Boché from international law firm McDermott…
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Will governments regulate the use of AI in healthcare? And if they do, what restrictions or guardrails would likely be put into place? Caleb Williamson, State Public Policy Counsel at the Connected Health Initiative…
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Scholars from UCSD argue for a shift towards prioritizing patient outcomes in healthcare AI regulation. The current focus on process-centric regulations overlooks the fundamental goal of improving patient health. They propose an outcomes-centric approach,…
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