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Lawmakers, clinicians and entrepreneurs push guarded adoption of AI in health care
Summary
Sen. Lisa Reynolds and health-sector speakers told the legislative committee on Sept. 30 that AI could reduce clinician administrative burden and spur economic development, but emphasized the need for governance, monitoring and patient-safety guardrails before broad clinical adoption.
Sen. Lisa Reynolds told the Joint Committee on Information Management and Technology that artificial intelligence offers a way to reduce administrative burdens for clinicians and improve access, but that the state needs guardrails to protect patients when AI is used for clinical decision-making.
"We must both embrace AI and health care as a way to streamline our work... and we must must regulate that," Reynolds said, framing the issue as both an operational and a policy priority. She said she helped host a virtual town hall on AI and health care that…
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