AI has great potential to support care but should not take away the clinician’s interpretive effort and expertise that is needed. ASE advocates that AI should be supplemental, not a replacement for the clinician.
ASE urges the application of appropriate and different payment pathways for the diverse range of AI services when determining AI usage.
- Assistive technologies
- Detects clinically relevant data without analysis or generated conclusions. Requires physician interpretation and report
- Augmentative technologies
- Analyzes and/or quantifies data to yield clinically meaningful output. Requires physician interpretation and report.
- Autonomous technologies
- Automatically interprets data and independently generates clinically meaningful conclusions without concurrent physician involvement.