The Impact of AI on Health Care at HIMSS23.

The HIMSS Global Health Conference in Chicago saw discussions on the role of AI in healthcare, with companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon showcasing new health applications for AI. The focus was on using AI for administrative or "back office" tasks, which require less regulatory oversight and can help reduce the burden of clerical work on clinicians. However, developing diagnostic or directly patient-facing generative AI applications pose significant regulatory questions. The technology is vulnerable to bias and discrimination if it is trained on health-care data that does not properly represent a patient population, which could ultimately lead to inadequate decision making or treatment plans.