policy advisory group highlight benefit
Policy advisory group highlights benefits, challenges of AI-driven mobile health
Artificial intelligence-driven health tools, including those built for mobile apps or other technologies, have the potential to conveniently delivery high-quality data and services to a growing share of the population, according to a recent JASON advisory report requested by and developed for HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). To do so, however, major players will need to be cognizant to the potential pitfalls AI will bring, and make directed efforts to prevent issues of privacy and security, mismanagement of growing datasets, access inequity, and the proliferation of misinformation for personal gain. "Revolutionary changes in health and health care are already beginning in the use of smart devices to monitor individual health. Many of these developments are taking place outside of traditional diagnostic and clinical settings," the advisory group wrote in its report. "In the future, AI and smart devices will become increasingly interdependent, including in health-related fields. On one hand, AI will be used to power many health-related mobile attachments and apps. On the other hand, mobile devices will create massive datasets that may open new possibilities in the development of AI-based health and health care tools."