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Risks And Remedies For Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare, W. Nicholson Price Ii Jan 2019

Risks And Remedies For Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare, W. Nicholson Price Ii

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly entering health care and serving major roles, from automating drudgery and routine tasks in medical practice to managing patients and medical resources. As developers create AI systems to take on these tasks, several risks and challenges emerge, including the risk of injuries to patients from AI system errors, the risk to patient privacy of data acquisition and AI inference, and more. Potential solutions are complex but involve investment in infrastructure for high-quality, representative data; collaborative oversight by both the Food and Drug Administration and other health-care actors; and changes to medical education that will prepare …


Do Different Types Of Hospitals Act Differently?, Jill R. Horwitz Jan 2005

Do Different Types Of Hospitals Act Differently?, Jill R. Horwitz

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This essay is based on testimony delivered before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means on May 26, 2005.


Political Questions, Judicial Questions, And The Problem Of Washington V. Glucksberg, Carl E. Schneider Jan 2000

Political Questions, Judicial Questions, And The Problem Of Washington V. Glucksberg, Carl E. Schneider

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Over a century and a half ago, Alexis de Tocqueville famously said, "Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question." Physician-assisted suicide superbly illustrates Tocqueville's acute observation. For a number of years, assisted suicide was the prototype of a (nonpartisan) political question. Interest groups brought it to public attention. Public discussion of it flourished. Legislatures debated it. Citizens in several states decided in referenda whether to make it legal. Almost suddenly, however, this classic political process was transformed into a judicial one by the startling and strongly stated …