Report Demonstrates Successful Uses for AI to Improve Health Care
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Kelly Broadway, 202-808-8853
kbroadway@health-innovation.org
Washington, D.C. – The Health Innovation Alliance (HIA) calls for the Trump administration to enact government-wide investment and lower regulatory burden for artificial intelligence (AI) in health care to stamp out fraud, lower administrative costs, and empower doctors with the best technology and treatments for their patients.
In comments submitted to the National Science Foundation’s Request for Information (RFI) on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan, HIA highlighted the growing use of AI tools throughout the health care system and the need for one set of regulatory standards. Currently, different agencies take different approaches to regulating AI, creating unnecessary chaos and confusion. HIA supports a risk-based approach to regulating AI, like the one used by the FDA.
Every year, administrative costs and fraud consume up to 870 billion dollars across all parts of health care, more than four times what we spend to treat cancer. With the U.S. leading the world in AI, new federal resources invested in health care would provide a clear ROI for the government and taxpayers.
“No industry could make better use of AI than health care. President Trump and his administration can streamline and correct the one-size-fits-all approach to AI that the previous administration set into motion,” said Brett Meeks, Executive Director, Health Innovation Alliance. “By investing more in AI tools for health care and allowing those tools to be regulated based on the amount of risk involved, more can come to market, helping patients get better, faster care while lowering health care costs. An AI-powered scheduling tool and an AI-guided robotic surgery system are not the same and should not be evaluated equally; a one-size-fits-all approach to health care AI does not work.”
To spotlight the numerous ways artificial intelligence-based technology is being used and can be used to fix the nation’s biggest health care problems, HIA released Use Cases for AI Tools to Improve Health Care. The report includes real and potential uses for AI in health care and explores the varying factors policymakers should consider when balancing both safety and innovation.
“The potential for artificial intelligence’s expansive use throughout the health care system – starting with a patient scheduling an appointment, to a new drug released on the market that cures that patient – can be difficult to imagine. We hope this report gives people a better understanding of how AI can be used, the areas where it excels, and its shortcomings. A more complete picture can help both the industry figure out how to improve and policymakers better understand the domino effect of their decisions,” said Meeks.
Click to read HIA’s letter to the National Science Foundation.