Podcast: Guardrails for AI in Health Care—How High?

Podcast: Guardrails for AI in Health Care—How High?

AI is racing into everyday medicine, yet the rules of the road are still being written. SHP's Michelle Mello joins this KFF podcast to discuss.
Chip Kahn and Michelle Mello for KFF podcast

 

SHP’s Michelle Mello, JD, PhD, joins Chip Kahn on KFF’s podcast The Business of Health podcast to talk about how artificial intelligence is transforming everyday medicine. Mello, a professor of health policy and of law, is co-leader of Stanford Medicine’s Healthcare Ethical Assessment Lab for AI, and one of the country’s leading experts on patient safety and accountability in medicine. 

In this conversation, Mello and Kahn addresses the key questions about the rapidly expanding use of AI in medicine: who makes the rules, who ensures the technology gets it right—and who answers when it doesn't?

 

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