AAMI intends to leverage the code to inform its work addressing the use of AI and machine learning in medical devices.
The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) announced its alignment with the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) recently published AI Code of Conduct (AICC). AAMI intends to leverage the code to inform its work addressing the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in medical devices.
The AICC is a non-binding resource that organizations in the medical field can use as a baseline for evaluating AI adoption and deployment. The code identifies six core commitments for any ethical application and implementation of AI in the medical field:
- Advance humanity
- Ensure equity
- Engage impacted individuals
- Improve workforce well-being
- Monitor performance
- Innovate and learn
“AI has the potential to further transform healthcare, but where there is opportunity there is also risk,” says Robert Burroughs, AAMI’s chief learning and development officer, in a release. “As the leading developer of voluntary, consensus standards for the medical device industry, our mission is to help ensure the safe and effective use of health technology. The AICC’s six core principles provide a framework we can use to align our diverse efforts across standards development, education, and certification. We intend to use the AICC as a key reference document and will share it widely with our members and stakeholders.”
AAMI vice president of standards, Matt Williams, also anticipates benefits for AAMI. “We fully expect the AICC will provide a welcome resource for AAMI committee members as they produce regulatory-ready guidance documents for the entire medical device sector.”
Laura Adams, senior advisor at the National Academy of Medicine, describes the AICC as a “definitive answer to a disjointed landscape” of AI guidelines and frameworks. Describing its six commitments, she notes that readers “find them to be practical. We clarified them, we elevated what was out in the field, and we are finding that people are using [the AICC] as a touchstone.” In an effort to facilitate the adoption of these guidelines, Adams has authored “Why and How to Use the NAM AICC.”
To further accelerate adoption, AAMI is also producing an executive summary of the 189-page AICC later this year.
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