Beyond the Stethoscope: How AI is Reshaping Hospital Operations (Part 3) – Regulation & Compliance

Dr. Deepa Bhide, PMP is a physician and currently an independent healthcare IT and project management consultant. She has a postgraduate degree in Pediatrics and Neonatology from the University of Health Sciences, India. Deepa is an advocate of using project management in healthcare and related domains. She has worked extensively in the confluence of clinical medicine, IT and project management domains with hands-on experience in managing projects from conception to closure.

  Artificial Intelligence   Healthcare  

This is Part 3 of an ongoing interview series where I talk with Dr. N from ABC Hospital* in Hyderabad, India. Dr. N spearheads an artificial intelligence project for the facility.

Part 1 had a general overview of the stakeholders, and Part 2 shared more details of key stakeholders such as the medical team and patients. In Part 3, we discuss the role of regulatory agencies involved in AI projects for a hospital.

Deepa: AI comes with its troupe of regulatory police! Do you think India has any global directive on using AI in healthcare?

Dr. N: Oh yes. A lot is going on this front on the global and national levels.

The World Health Organization released its first global report (“Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health”) on artificial intelligence in health—and six guiding principles for its design. The report cautions against overemphasizing the benefits of AI in the health sector. It points out the risks linked to unethical collection and utilization of healthcare data, patient safety, cybersecurity, and biases encoded in …

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