Senate Finance Committee Shows Interest in Legislation Targeting AI in Health Care
Summary
The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on the use of algorithms and AI systems in health care on February 8, 2024. Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) commented that he and ranking Republican Mike Crapo (ID) have discussed the need to implement guardrails to protect patients. During his opening statement, Sen. Wyden said that rules recently issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) did not go far enough to regulate AI. Sen. Wyden likely referred, in part, to a rule on health information technology recently issued by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), which we previously wrote about here.
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