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White House AI plan could help boost transparency, oversight<\/p>\n
Jul 25, 2025<\/p>\n
What\u2019s the news:\u00a0<\/strong>The White House this week unveiled its action plan on AI<\/a>, identifying more than 90 recommended policy changes in federal government policy that the Trump administration will pursue in the coming months. According to the White House, the plan is built on three pillars: \u201caccelerating innovation, building American AI infrastructure and leading in international diplomacy and security.\u201d<\/p>\n The plan is an encouraging step forward, as the administration is prioritizing the responsible development and deployment of augmented intelligence (AI)<\/a>\u2014often called artificial intelligence\u2014to improve health outcomes.<\/p>\n The AMA applauds the plan\u2019s commitments to:<\/p>\n The AMA also welcomes to the opportunity to work with the administration to address key areas that deserve more attention. These include:<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s important:\u00a0<\/strong>From AI implementation to EHR adoption and usability, the AMA is fighting to make technology work for physicians<\/a>, ensuring that it is an asset to doctors\u2014not a burden.<\/p>\n The AMA is committed to ensuring that AI can meet its full potential to advance clinical care and improve clinician well-being. As the number of AI-enabled health care tools continue to grow, it is critical that they are designed, developed and deployed in a manner that is ethical, equitable and responsible. The use of AI in health care must be transparent to both physicians and patients.\u00a0<\/p>\n In addition to medical devices, AI is increasingly used in health care administration or to reduce physician burden, and policy and guidance for both device and non-device use of health care AI is necessary.\u00a0<\/p>\n Recognizing this, the AMA\u00a0has developed policy<\/a>\u00a0(PDF) that addresses the development, deployment and use of health care AI, with particular emphasis on:<\/p>\n In June, the AMA House of Delegates adopted new policy to help ensure that health AI<\/a> is \u201cexplainable,\u201d validated, well defined and is not used to conduct medical research fraud.<\/p>\n AMA survey research from 2024 shows<\/a> (PDF) that physicians are largely enthusiastic about the potential of AI in health care, with 68% seeing at least some advantage to the use of AI in their practice. Meanwhile, 66% reported using some type of AI tool in practice.\u00a0<\/p>\n Learn more:<\/strong> The AMA STEPS Forward\u00ae \u201cGovernance for Augmented Intelligence<\/a>\u201d toolkit, developed in collaboration with Manatt Health, is a comprehensive eight-step guide for health care systems to establish a governance framework to implement, manage and scale AI solutions.<\/p>\n Catch up with this AMA report on\u00a0emerging landscape of health care AI<\/a>. Also, explore how to apply AI to transform health care with the \u201cAMA ChangeMedEd\u00ae\u00a0Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Series<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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