ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (FG-AI4H)
International Telecommunication Union and World Health Organization
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The ITU/WHO Focus Group on “AI for Health” (FG-AI4H) was established in July 2018 to develop international evaluation standards for AI solutions in health. The Focus Group works at the interface of multiple fields (e.g., machine learning/AI, medicine, regulation, public health, statistics, and ethics) and includes other decision-makers who value a standardized and transparent benchmarking framework. The international approach offers the opportunity to concentrate diverse national expertise in standardization frameworks on a global level.
The deliverables represent a collective effort made by members of FG-AI4H. As the collaboration is an ongoing procedure, iterative versions of the deliverables are presented at each bi-monthly meeting. Each topic group and working group produces multiple deliverables. The former include topic description documents; the latter include guidelines on ethical considerations, regulatory considerations (best practices specification), requirements specifications, software lifecycle specifications, data specifications, AI training best practices specifications, evaluation specifications, scale-up/adoption, and FG-AI4H applications and platforms. Deliverables categories 00 Overview of the FG-AI4H deliverables 01 AI4H ethics considerations 02 AI4H regulatory best practices 03 AI4H requirements specification 04 AI software life cycle specification 05 Data specification 06 AI training best practices specification 07 AI4H evaluation considerations 08 AI4H scale-up and adoption 09 AI4H applications and platforms 10 AI4H use cases: Topic description documents
The deliverables represent a collective effort made by members of FG-AI4H. As the collaboration is an ongoing procedure, iterative versions of the deliverables are presented at each bi-monthly meeting. Each topic group and working group produces multiple deliverables. The former include topic description documents; the latter include guidelines on ethical considerations, regulatory considerations (best practices specification), requirements specifications, software lifecycle specifications, data specifications, AI training best practices specifications, evaluation specifications, scale-up/adoption, and FG-AI4H applications and platforms. Deliverables categories 00 Overview of the FG-AI4H deliverables 01 AI4H ethics considerations 02 AI4H regulatory best practices 03 AI4H requirements specification 04 AI software life cycle specification 05 Data specification 06 AI training best practices specification 07 AI4H evaluation considerations 08 AI4H scale-up and adoption 09 AI4H applications and platforms 10 AI4H use cases: Topic description documents
Key conditions that help lead to the work and progress of the Focus Group include the participation of national and regional medical device regulators, public health agencies, medical professionals, AI developers, ITU-WHO inter-agency collaboration and many others.
The overall objectives of the FG-AI4H are to tap this network of international expertise to create (a) guidelines (i.e., document-form “deliverables”) for the evaluation of AI for health and (b) to create an online platform and complementary tools for the benchmarking of AI for health. As such the output are explicitly designed for replicability.
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The objective is to help achieve universal health coverage in an equitable and sustainable fashion using AI, as such the intended beneficiaries are citizens of all countries. Key stakeholder including WHO, national and regional medical device regulators, public health agencies, AI developers, and medical professionals.
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Simão, ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health