AI regulation

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By  Jessica Hagen 05:48 pm February 6, 2025
The European Union has released Guidelines to provide legal clarity on the prohibited uses of AI within the EU AI Act to ensure effective, consistent and uniform application and protect European citizens' rights and safety. The EU AI Act, which outlines regulations for the development, market placement, implementation and use of artificial intelligence in the European Union, came into effect in...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:01 pm January 21, 2025
On his first day in office of his second term, President Donald Trump revoked Joe Biden's 2023 executive order, which aimed to establish standards for the safe, secure and trustworthy development of AI across various sectors, including healthcare. Among its many provisions, Biden's order directed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a safety program "to help ensure...
Panelists at Boston Consulting Group event
By  Jessica Hagen 12:54 pm January 16, 2025
At a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) event in San Francisco during the JPM Healthcare Conference taking place this week, panelists discussed the government's role in advancing AI technology and government oversight of the technology with the changing administration.  Micky Tripathi, assistant secretary for technology policy, national coordinator for health IT and chief AI officer for the U.S....
FDA building
By  Jessica Hagen 12:15 pm October 21, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released its perspective on regulating AI in healthcare and biomedicine, stating that oversight needs to be coordinated across all regulated industries, international organizations and the U.S. government.  The Agency says it regulates industries that distribute their products to the global market, and therefore U.S. regulatory standards must be...
Digitally generated image of a human hand reaching out for a robotic hand
By  Jessica Hagen 03:14 pm August 1, 2024
The EU AI Act comes into effect today, outlining regulations for the development, market placement, implementation and use of artificial intelligence in the European Union. The Council wrote that the Act is intended to "promote the uptake of human-centric and trustworthy artificial intelligence while ensuring a high level of protection of health, safety, [and] fundamental rights … including...
Jay Rughani, investment partner at Andreessen Horowitz
By  Jessica Hagen 12:41 pm December 26, 2023
Note: Andreessen Horowitz says views expressed by its employees are their own and should not be taken as investment advice. More details at https://a16z.com/disclosures/. As 2023 comes to a close, Jay Rughani, investment partner at Andreessen Horowitz, joined MobiHealthNews to discuss his takeaways from the year, noteworthy events, recommendations for regulators forming rules around AI in...
Dr. Michael Howell, chief clinical officer at Google
By  Jessica Hagen 02:41 pm December 5, 2023
Dr. Michael Howell, chief clinical officer at Google, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss noteworthy events in 2023, the evolution of the company's LLM for healthcare, called Med-PaLM, and recommendations for regulators in constructing rules around the use of artificial intelligence in the sector.  MobiHealthNews: ​​What are some of your big takeaways from 2023? Dr. Michael Howell: For us,...