Source: Wall Street Journal
The nutrition-label proposal was published in April by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, a. . .part of HHS that certifies electronic health-record software. The ONC’s certification requirements function like industry regulations because this software typically must have the agency’s blessing before hospitals and doctors buy it. Under the proposal, an AI system’s nutrition label would show how the model was trained and tested, its intended uses and measures of its “validity and fairness.” The agency doesn’t mandate how the label would look, only that the information must be visible to doctors, hospital officials and others via their ONC-certified software. AI developers could choose not to disclose anything. But clinicians would be able to see that, too. “We do believe that blank fields would be very informative,” said Tripathi, the ONC leader.