New guidance on AI safety; vaping affects vascular health even without nicotine; 2024 NAM annual meeting videos available online – Morning Medical Update

New guidance for ensuring AI safety in clinical care

Reformed guidance regarding the safety of artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical settings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, was written by Dean Sittig, PhD, a professor with McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston and Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine. As AI becomes more prevalent in health care settings, the authors emphasize the importance of organizations and physicians alike taking additional precautions and steps to assure patient safety.

“We often hear about the need for AI to be built safely, but not about how to use it safely in health care settings,” Sittig said in a university release. “It is a tool that has the potential to revolutionize medical care, but without safeguards in place, AI could generate false or misleading outputs that could potentially harm patients if left unchecked.”

Even without nicotine, vaping immediately affects vascular health and oxygen levels

New research, presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago, showed that use of an e-cigarette, regardless of the presence of nicotine, had an immediate effect on how well the user’s blood vessels work, decreasing venous oxygen saturation and therefore causing a person’s lungs to take in less oxygen. CNN Health has the full story.

2024 NAM Annual Meeting materials available online

Videos and transcripts from the 2024 National Academy of Medicine (NAM) annual meeting are now available online at NAM’s website. The 2024 annual meeting saw the election of 100 new members, the induction of the previous year’s member class and welcomed hundreds of attendees to celebrate the year’s accomplishments. Videos and a full transcript of the event can be found here.