Availity Issues Responsible Artificial Intelligence Principles
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., February 20, 2024–BUSINESS WIRE–Availity, the nation’s largest real-time health information network, has taken a significant step in the development and deployment of AI-powered tools in the healthcare industry with the issuance of the company’s Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) Principles.
The principles, developed with broad and collaborative contributions across Availity business units, reflect the company’s commitment to maximizing the meaningful and beneficial use of AI in the delivery of healthcare. The AI policy builds upon internationally recognized standards and applied lessons learned from industry leaders.
Guided by its Responsible AI Principles, Availity is focused on several key commitments in the development, integration, and deployment of AI-powered tools:
1. Safety first: Availity prioritizes strong safety and security practices to reduce risks of harm to clients, users, and other individuals served. The company aims to build resilience into its AI systems and establish proper safeguards to decrease the potential for inappropriate influences.
2. Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias: Availity strives to minimize known biases in data and designs AI systems with fair and equitable objectives. The company is committed to monitoring the outputs accordingly to ensure fairness.
3. Honor privacy and confidentiality: In addition to adherence to HIPAA Security and Privacy Rule policies, Availity will respect data use rights agreements, adopt architectures with privacy safeguards, and provide appropriate transparency and control over the use of data.
4. Lead with accountability, transparency, and observability: Availity is committed to transparency in the AI development process and observability of AI system outputs. The company will document what data was used in developing the system and continuously assess the AI for proper functioning within the context and use case for which it was designed.
5. Research, learn, and iterate: Availity will continuously improve its solutions, applying a systematic risk management approach through monitoring and analyzing AI system behavior throughout its lifecycle.
Russ Thomas, CEO of Availity, emphasized the importance of responsible and ethical training and maintenance of AI systems to enhance the products and services provided to clients and deliver transformational improvements through ethical and responsible AI. Thomas stated, “At Availity, we believe that AI holds the potential to improve patient outcomes, enhance administrative efficiencies, lower healthcare costs, and spark innovations across the healthcare industry.”
The Responsible AI Principles are a testament to achieving this vision, requiring a collaborative effort between AI developers, healthcare professionals, and regulatory bodies to create AI technologies that are accountable, transferable, and traceable.
For additional information, visit the Trusted AI with Availity website.
About Availity
Availity is the trusted partner for organizations seeking to realize the greatest value from clinical, administrative, and financial data in the healthcare industry. Positioned at the nexus of provider, health plan, and consumer health information, Availity develops scalable, innovative solutions for healthcare data acquisition, standardization, transparency, automation, and exchange among health plans, providers, and technology partners.
As one of the nation’s largest health information networks, Availity facilitates billions of clinical, administrative, and financial transactions annually. The company’s suite of dynamic products enables real-time collaboration for success in a competitive, value-based care environment.
For more information, including an online demonstration, please visit www.availity.com or follow Availity on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Contacts
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Matt Schlossberg
Director of Public Relations, Availity
630-935-9136
matt.schlossberg@availity.com
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