NIH seeks to engage patients as it scales use of AI with Bio Genesis Mission
The National Institutes of Health is integrating patient feedback into its AI development programs, including the Bio Genesis Mission. The agency aims to use a co-design approach to ensure AI tools in biomedical research are developed with input from patients and clinicians.
Why it matters
Involving patients in AI development is critical for ensuring ethical, effective, and equitable medical technology outcomes.
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The National Institutes of Health is opening multiple avenues for patient feedback as it increasingly adopts artificial intelligence through initiatives such as the Bio Genesis Mission, the agency’s contribution to the Trump administration’s broader Genesis Mission .
“That's what we want. We want to see that active engagement in the community,” Bradley Bower, NIH’s Chief AI Officer, said Thursday at the Special Competitive Studies Project’s AI+ Health Summit.
“Pretty much every new AI-focused program we're building up… all of them include a co-design approach where patients, clinicians, anybody that is engaged as a stakeholder in the process has to be involved,” Bower added.
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