Finance Committee Plans Hearing On Health Care AI

The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing on the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence systems in health care next Thursday (Feb. 8), coming after two Finance members recently urged Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to back legislation setting up a new federal agency to regulate AI across all industry sectors. The debate over whether health care AI should instead be regulated by Congress beefing up FDA and other HHS agencies’ current authorities is heating up, with a newly...