AI Development Should Utilize ‘Health Equity By Design’ Principle

Insights from a congressional briefing by HIMSS during Health Equity Week.

Health equity by design should be a core principle of AI/ML development, a national health IT official told the US Congress during Global Health Equity Week.

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To create equitable artificial intelligence and machine learning devices, developers need to take a “health equity by design” approach, National Coordinator Micky Tripathi said during a 24 October Congressional briefing.

Tripathi serves as national coordinator within the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology, an office within the US Department of Health and Human Services

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