Artificial Intelligence In Health And Health Care: Priorities For Action.

Journal: Health affairs (Project Hope)
PMID: 39841940

Abstract

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has entered a new cycle of intense opportunity, fueled by advances in deep learning, including generative AI. Applications of recent advances affect many aspects of everyday life, yet nowhere is it more important to use this technology safely, effectively, and equitably than in health and health care. Here, as part of the National Academy of Medicine's Vital Directions for Health and Health Care: Priorities for 2025 initiative, which is designed to provide guidance on pressing health care issues for the incoming presidential administration, we describe the steps needed to achieve these goals. We focus on four strategic areas: ensuring safe, effective, and trustworthy use of AI; promotion and development of an AI-competent health care workforce; investing in AI research to support the science, practice, and delivery of health and health care; and promotion of policies and procedures to clarify AI liability and responsibilities.

Authors

  • Michael E Matheny
    Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN.
  • Jennifer C Goldsack
    HealthMode Inc., San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Suchi Saria
    Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
  • Nigam H Shah
    Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
  • Jacqueline Gerhart
    Jacqueline Gerhart, Epic, Verona, Wisconsin.
  • I Glenn Cohen
    Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
  • W Nicholson Price
    University of Michigan Law School, 625 State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  • Bakul Patel
    Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Digital Health Center of Excellence, United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Springs, Maryland.
  • Philip R O Payne
    Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
  • Peter J Embi
    Regenstrief Institute Inc, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis.
  • Brian Anderson
    Coalition for Health AI, Dover, Delaware.
  • Eric Horvitz
    Microsoft.

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