HHS to Fund AI- Enabled Medical Device Maintenance Tools

Research has shown that machine learning models used in clinical settings may degrade over time. The new HHS money is earmarked for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, which will use it to innovate its efforts to make AI tools more reliable for doctors and more beneficial for patients.That initiative is known as the Performance and Reliability Evaluation for Continuous Modifications and Useability of Artificial Intelligence, or PRECISE-AI.More than 950 medical devices with integrated AI functionalities have been authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration – representing a tenfold increase from 2018, according to ARPA-H.While these new AI-enabled tools may transform doctors’ ability to provide care, ML may degrade over time due to changes in input data from clinical operations, data acquisition, patient population or IT infrastructure.