AHCA/NCAL Submits Comments on Artificial Intelligence Use RFI

AHCA/NCAL provided comments to the ASTP/ONC on the RFI titled “Accelerating the Adoption and Use of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Care.”
The comment submission emphasized contextual info on AHCA/NCAL provider members, resident populations served, and digital capabilities, highlighting inherent challenges in adopting AI due to regulatory, financial, and infrastructural barriers.
Key AHCA/NCAL recommendations revolved around ensuring AI tools are validated and unbiased, improving interoperability standards and geriatric-specific data elements, aligning payment policies to incentivize AI adoption, providing infrastructure support to enable AI readiness in under-resourced providers, prioritizing research on aging-related priorities, establishing regulatory frameworks for liability, privacy, and transparency for non-medical device AI tools, and creating testbeds for evaluating AI tools in long-term and post-acute care settings with a focus on older populations.

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