At a House subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, lawmakers expressed concerns about whether artificial intelligence is being appropriately used in healthcare and called for stronger guardrails to supervise the quickly evolving technology.

“With all these innovative advancements being leveraged across the American healthcare ecosystem, it is paramount that we ensure proper oversight is being applied, because the application of AI and machine learning will only increase,” said Energy and Commerce subcommittee Chair, Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va.

While House Democrats and Republicans said oversight of the technology was needed for applications ranging from mental health chatbots to prior authorization reviews, they proposed few concrete plans for future regulation or guardrails.

The hearing,

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