Considering the safety and quality of artificial intelligence in health care.

Patrick Ross; Kathryn Spates

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Considering the safety and quality of artificial intelligence in health care.

September 16, 2020

Ross P, Spates K. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2020;46(10):596-599.

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This article discusses healthcare safety and quality issues in artificial intelligence (AI) development and use (such as biases in AI tools) and approaches to increase transparency and understanding of AI tools among health care providers.

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