ONC proposes adding a “nutrition label” to healthcare apps to disclose their uses and performance. wall street journal report.
But some health system and technology company executives said the warnings could be too intrusive, cost patients money and stifle innovation, according to a Dec. 2 article.
“The food label idea makes sense,” Scott Arnold, chief digital innovation officer at Tampa General Hospital in Florida, told the news outlet. “If it goes too far, I think it’s going to put additional burdens and taxes on health care providers, clinicians and caregivers. And that’s going to lead us in the wrong direction.”
But supporters of the proposal argue it would help avoid the errors of previous health technology platforms, which were riddled with errors and persistent health inequities. journal report.
“It’s transparent for the users of the system,” Dr. Mickey Tripathi, ONC’s national coordinator for health IT, told the newspaper. “Currently, there is resistance to some of these tools due to their black box nature.”
Disclosure including how medical artificial intelligence is trained and tested is optional. “We believe that blank fields can be very beneficial,” Dr. Tripathi said. journal.
According to the story, some companies are concerned about their proprietary algorithms becoming publicly available. “Our risk-related information includes intellectual property that may be reverse engineered and copied by others,” Epic told ONC in a comment letter.