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...

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