HHS agencies flesh out priorities for healthcare AI

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is preparing new guidance to help accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence across healthcare, with federal officials signaling that governance frameworks, implementation support and new approaches for evaluating clinical AI tools are among the department’s top priorities.

Officials from multiple HHS agencies – including the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, the Food and Drug Administration and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health – on Thursday fleshed out plans for a coordinated “OneHHS” strategy for expanding AI use.

The OneHHS effort, first announced in December, aims to encourage broader AI adoption in the sector while developing policies intended to build trust among clinicians and patients,

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