Does human-in-the-loop work in health care?

Brittany Trang, Ph.D., is a health tech reporter at STAT and writes the AI Prognosis newsletter. Follow her on Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky. You can reach Brittany on Signal at btrang.01.

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The entire time I’ve covered AI in health care, companies developing and selling the tech have been pawning off liability for AI-generated errors onto doctors. 

For example, care technology company WellSky is careful to make sure it’s “keeping a human in the loop and not developing any unintended consequences around clinical decision support” that the company might “[end] up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal for, quite frankly,” CEO Bill Miller said at last year’s Oracle Health Summit.

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