Clinicians’ Forum on AI in Health & Medicine
The Clinicians’ Forum for health professional societies and associations will engage regularly with AI product developers in the interest of enhanced mutual comfort levels and ongoing clinician-developer collaboration and accelerated bi-directional learning.
About the Forum
The Clinicians’ Forum will gather for demonstration and consideration of developing tools, engage in meaningful dialogue, surface critical questions, and generate actionable insights to guide the responsible and effective application, evaluation and improvement of AI technologies applied by clinicians in various health and health care venues. By creating opportunities for real-time incubation of promising ideas and fostering collaboration, this effort will accelerate the safe, equitable, and transformative integration of AI into health care and enable a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Background
AI in Health Care
Generative AI has rapidly appeared on the scene as a tool for unprecedented analysis, management and use of information in health, medicine and biomedical science. The integration of AI in health care presents important opportunities to revolutionize diagnosis, treatment development, care delivery, and outcomes. But it also presents potentially disruptive changes for the workforce, including new requirements for training and retraining; creation of new roles associated with the development, deployment, and ethical management of AI; and issues of trust in the technology and how it will be used, including the potential impact on clinicians whose activities are particularly amenable to automation. Health professionals face questions about how best to apply these technologies and their potential impact on patient care. The challenge is to ensure that the use of the technology is advanced in the most efficient, responsible, safe, and socially beneficial manner.
Participating Organizations
Kickoff Meeting
Clinicians’ Forum on AI in Health & Medicine: A Mapping Conversation
To identify opportunities, special considerations, and key steps related to the establishment of a Clinicians’ Forum on AI in Health & Medicine, the NAM convened a kickoff planning meeting of key health professional organizations (e.g., medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physician associates, social work), developers, patients, and related stakeholders.
Contact Information
Questions?
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