Overcoming Legal Liability Obstacles to AI Adoption

From the NEJM Catalyst event AI and Machine Learning for Health Care Delivery, sponsored by Advisory Board, March 24, 2022. In the special artificial intelligence theme issue of NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery, "AI Insurance: How Liability Insurance Can Drive the Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care" explores how AI liability insurance can mitigate predictable risks and uncertainties to health care AI adoption. The big challenge for health care delivery is overcoming institutional mismatch, according to Stern. "The technologies that have the greatest potential to transform health care delivery --this includes, but is not limited, to AI -- would be unrecognizable to the 20th-century architects of our regulatory and health care delivery institutions," says Stern. "And this problem is getting worse. The pace of innovation that we see today coupled with our rapidly transforming analytical and technological capabilities is increasingly mismatched to our existing institutions."