What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a request for information (RFI) on how artificial intelligence (AI) is used to improve health care delivery, with the goal of informing future rulemaking.
What else to know: CMS will select organizations to showcase their AI products and services to educate the agency and inform future policymaking during a series of “Demo Days” starting in October.
CMS seeks demonstrations of existing AI technologies that support the improvement of health care outcomes and service delivery to educate and inspire the CMS workforce on AI capabilities and provide information to inform potential future agency action.
CMS is especially interested in the following AI functionalities in the health care sector:
- Generative AI
- Diagnostics and imaging analysis
- Clinical documentation and summarization
- Alert/risk assessment and predictive analytics
- Clinical decision support systems
- Business administration automation and efficiencies
- Staffing and workforce enablement
- Billing, benefits, and utilization management
- Direct-to-patient communication
- AI direct care, such as robotic-assisted health care delivery
- Fraud detection
Questions related to the RFI should be submitted by Sept. 27, and responses are due Oct. 7.
