The talk around care AI is maturing, according to one medical executive.  ,
During an interview last month, Zafar Chaudry, key modern commander and chief AI and information officer at Seattle Children’s, said that there has been a lot more talk surrounding the governance and oversight of care AI in the past year or so.
” Remember, it’s not just about systems. People and approach are a major concern in all of this”, he declared.
Over the past month, Chaudry said he has noticed the healthcare sector increasing its emphasis on the social and health considerations of AI, as well as the clarity element.
For example, some politicians have on users that use AI to dispute claims. And organizations like the Coalition for Health AI Coverage ( CHAI ) and are ramping up their efforts to develop standardized AI governance frameworks.
As the economy continues to get more serious about AI, it has become apparent that AI tools very often work as out-of-the field solutions, Chaudry added.
” I have not seen a lot of actual, tangible use cases that]A I companies ] are actually solving. There’s some, but many are quite much’ If you tell us what the problem is, we’ll develop the solution for you,'” he explained. ” I sort of check it to when you get your iPhone, you download a whole bunch of applications, and then you can do a whole bunch of things”.
When clinics enter into contracts with AI designers to create tools that are the right match, the two parties should reveal risk, Chaudry remarked.
This type of agreement is not common. He said most AI designers want to be compensated for their time and supplies.
” The problem with the time and materials-type commitment is, if I have a great idea, and you agree to build it for me, wouldn’t you like to build it for a long period of time because therefore my act keeps going up? It’s very hard to cost-control that”, Chaudry explained.
Ultimately, the doctor and AI company would pick up a contract in which the hospital pays on a milestone basis— and only if the product performs well, he said.
As it stands today, facilities ‘ contracts with software vendors usually don’t guarantee that the product they’re investing in will deliver the intended result, Chaudry declared.
” If you want a blue car and they deliver you a red car, would you just accept the red car? You’d say,’ Hey, something’s wrong here.’ But with AI in healthcare, it seems to be’ Well, we’ll kind of give you what you want, and then we’re done,'” he stated.
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