ITU: Impact of AI on Healthcare

Interview with Simão Campos

The International Telecommunications Union, the UN agency for standardization and regulation of information and communication technologies, together with healthcare experts from the World Health Organisation, independent medical researchers, artificial intelligence and machine learning academics, is working to set guidelines for the deployment of AI in healthcare settings and clinical research.

The UN Brief interviewed Simão Campos to speak about the ethical challenges as well as the technical constraints when using large data sets that health institutions might have, how to harness the value of the trove of data they are custodians of, while keeping guardrails and being in compliance with regulatory frameworks.

Created in 2018, the group is working to establish a standardized assessment framework for the evaluation of AI-based methods in triage, diagnosis, and treatment decisions in hospitals.

Right now they are focusing on 21 health cases for the application of the assessment framewo…