Artificial intelligence, and concerns that it will lead to patient misinformation, is a major topic at this year’s American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting in Chicago.
As many as 3,000 physicians, residents and medical students attend the six-day event starting Friday. The group’s committees and the House of Representatives will discuss and potentially vote on a wide range of policy proposals. Delegates will review three proposals to encourage the use of AI in healthcare, including two focused on the technology’s potential misinformation to patients.
Despite the technology’s propensity for lack of oversight and unintended consequences, physicians and payers are investing millions of dollars in implementing AI to streamline workflows.
in health systems, AI becomes a potential solution to the shortage of physicians And a way to reduce back-office costs. Located in Rochester, Minnesota Mayo Clinic and Google Cloud announced partnership this week To develop a generative AI-enabled enterprise search capability for providers and researchers. Boston Children’s Hospital officials are also upbeat on AI., including OpenAI’s generative AI application ChatGPT, which Dr. John Brownstein, chief innovation officer, likened to the iPhone or Google in terms of transformation.
In one proposal, a reproductive endocrinologist at the University of Missouri Healthcare, Dr. Albert Hsu, requests the association study how AI amplifies the effects of public health misinformation, cyber-libel, and physicians’ slander and misrepresentation.
In another, the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and the American Association of Hand Surgery want to find out how GPT devices can “fail simple tasks” and “hardly make errors.” Those groups are asking the AMA to launch a study into the consequences of using GPT and partner with federal regulators to protect patients from misleading AI-generated medical advice.
AI has been lauded as a more efficient way for payers to process claims. Several specialty care groups filed a joint motion requesting association. Pressure for greater regulatory oversight on insurers’ practicesincluding possible requirements for health professionals to review claims before they are denied.
A spokeswoman for the AMA said the association does not comment on proposals ahead of the vote, which will take place Monday through Wednesday in June. Not every motion is put to vote. The spokesperson said the three proposals related to AI would be addressed as a discussion item.
Over the past few years, the AMA has established three policies on augmented intelligence, which, unlike artificial intelligence, still requires a human aspect. In those policies, the group has championed how augmented intelligence can advance patient care, but also noted the need to avoid adverse patient outcomes and other liabilities and to establish guardrails to incorporate these topics into medical education. Have given.
Other proposals at this year’s meeting include removing body mass index as a standard measure. of Health, Promote race-conscious admissions practices and set guidelines to ensure equal care access.