The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Department of Health and Aged Care’s consultation on the benefits, risks and possible regulatory solutions to enable the safe use of AI in health care settings across Australia.
There are inherent risks and benefits to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. Appropriate use of AI will be an important enabler to driving value-based health care and ensuring sustainability of health systems. With the volume of data held within the health sector, AHHA recognises the opportunity that AI holds for the provision of high-quality, high-value care. Realising this opportunity, and mitigating the potential harms of irresponsible and rushed AI implementation, requires strong governance to overcome the cultural and structural challenges in health care and the organisation of health systems that impact the data from which AI models will be built and the environments into which they will be employed. Doing so can enable and drive the equitable and sustainable delivery of the health outcomes that matter to people and communities, made possible with technology.
