Let’s be real: even with the best intentions, AI systems can reflect our own unconscious biases. As Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky famously demonstrated in their groundbreaking work on Prospect Theory, humans are prone to cognitive biases that influence our…
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Chuikyo Subcommittee OKs Basic SaMD Reimbursement Rule
The Central Social Insurance Medical Council’s (Chuikyo) medical materials subcommittee basically approved the outlines of the evaluation rules for software as a medical device (SaMD) under health insurance programs on November 12. Based on examples in the past, SaMD that…
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