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Stanford Launches Responsible Health Artificial Intelligence Initiative

June 16, 2023 - Stanford Medicine and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) launched the Responsible AI for Safe and Equitable Health (RAISE-Health) initiative this week, which aims to tackle safety and ethical issues around the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. Defining the responsible use of health AI has been a...

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Coalition for Health AI Releases Blueprint for Trustworthy AI in Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) released its ‘Blueprint for Trustworthy AI Implementation Guidance and Assurance for Healthcare’ this week, which outlines recommendations to increase...

ChatGPT Capable of Answering CBME Microbiology Questions

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers writing this month in Cureus have found that ChatGPT is capable of answering first-order and second-order questions in line with the competency-based medical education (CBME) curriculum for...

AI Education Needed to Prepare Medical Students for Clinical Practice

by Shania Kennedy

In a recent commentary published in Cell Reports Medicine, University of Michigan researchers argued that the lack of education on healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) in medical school leaves...

How Does the White House AI Bill of Rights Apply to Healthcare?

by Shania Kennedy

In October, the White House unveiled its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, providing guidelines for the design, use, and deployment of AI-based tools to protect Americans from harm as the use of these technologies continues to grow in...

Mass General, Mayo Clinic, & More Share AI, Analytics Plans for Next Year

by Shania Kennedy

As 2022 draws to a close, health systems are gearing up for new opportunities and challenges in the year ahead. For many, top priorities from last year, such as patient access to care and efficiency improvements, will carry over into 2023....

Foundation Models Could Help Advance AI in Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

In a blog post published last week, experts from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) discussed the opportunities provided by foundation models for AI...

Coalition for Health AI Unveils Draft Blueprint for Ethical AI Implementation

by Shania Kennedy

The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) has published a draft of its ‘Blueprint for Trustworthy AI Implementation Guidance and Assurance for Healthcare,’ which outlines recommendations for...

Researchers Outline AI-Related Clinical Competencies for Health Professionals

by Shania Kennedy

A research report published in Academic Medicine outlines artificial intelligence (AI)-related clinical competencies for healthcare professionals in an effort to address practical and ethical concerns...

Coalition Shares Progress, Plans to Issue Responsible Health AI Guidelines

by Shania Kennedy

The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) has published papers related to the second round of workshops in its Bias, Equity, and Fairness series for public feedback and announced plans to share...

White House Unveils Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights

by Shania Kennedy

The White House unveiled its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights earlier this week, which identifies five guidelines for the design, use, and deployment of automated and artificial intelligence...

Experts Call for More Randomized Controlled Trials of Clinical AI

by Shania Kennedy

In a new systematic review published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, researchers concluded that randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted tools...

Mayo Clinic Accelerator Announces Second Cohort of Healthcare AI Startups

by Shania Kennedy

Mayo Clinic Platform announced that seven health technology startups will make up its accelerator program’s second cohort, which is focused on healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) development...

Sanford Health, Sharp HealthCare Join Clinical AI Development Collaboration

by Shania Kennedy

Sanford Health and Sharp HealthCare have joined a consortium spearheaded by healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) company Dandelion Health to launch an integrated data platform that allows health...

Researchers Develop Simulated Medical Interviews to Train AI Models

by Shania Kennedy

A study published in Scientific Data earlier this month showcases how researchers developed a dataset of simulated medical conversations focused on respiratory conditions to support the development and...

Researchers Call for ‘Reimbursement Framework’ for Healthcare AI

by Shania Kennedy

A paper published in npj Digital Medicine earlier this month outlines a potential “reimbursement framework” for the adoption of healthcare artificial intelligence (AI), which researchers...

New Collaboration to Leverage Engineering, AI to Improve Nursing Education

by Shania Kennedy

The Ohio State University Colleges of Nursing and Engineering are working together to launch a new project called ‘Disrupting Nursing Education with XR, AI and ML,’ which aims to better...

Researchers Call for ‘Distributed Approach’ to Clinical AI Regulation

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers argue that the national, centralized regulation of clinical artificial intelligence (AI) is not sufficient and instead propose a hybrid model of centralized and decentralized...

Stakeholders Urge White House’s AI Office to Include Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

In a letter to the chair and vice-chair of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office (NAIIO), healthcare and technology stakeholders asked that healthcare be included in the scope of its...

New Framework to Evaluate Bias in COVID-19 Prediction Models

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers have developed a framework to evaluate and address unrecognized modeling bias that can be present in healthcare-related artificial intelligence (AI). According to a study published in...

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