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Will HHS Enhance or Stall the Promise of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare?

By STEVEN ZECOLA In its Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (V.3), the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) acknowledges that: “For too long, our Department has been bogged down by bureaucracy and busy work.” HHS promises that it will accelerate artificial intelligence (“AI”) innovation, including “accelerating drug and biologic approvals at the FDA.” History shows that well-intended but cumulative regulatory intervention – more so than scientific complexity – is the primary deterrent to rapid technological progress. If AI is subject to the typical pattern of regulatory c...