Healthcare-grade AI™ for a healthier world
Ensuring the responsible use of AI enables us to help improve results, and ultimately make a bigger impact for patients.
Ensuring responsible AI practices in healthcare is critical to the impact AI can have on patient well-being, treatment outcomes, and the overall integrity of healthcare systems. A consistent and dedicated approach to AI governance is essential.
IQVIA is committed to effectively addressing concerns around bias, transparency, accountability, and ethics to deliver a uniform approach to AI, backed by a standardized, ethical framework that guides development and deployment of AI across our portfolio.
Accountability helps to provide assurances that decisions made by AI are credible, defensible, and explainable. This enhances decision-maker and consumer understanding of the inputs, outputs, and the ultimate outcomes.
Our teams aim to ensure only outputs that are accompanied by high confidence in precision are utilized, that outputs can be justified by supporting evidence, and that explanations are accurate and transparent for all stakeholders.
Auditability aims to enforce the appropriate structure and processes to allow for rigorous and periodic audits of applications and performance. This facilitates efficient and timely compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements. Lack of auditability may expose AI systems and solutions to additional regulatory scrutiny. Some safeguards employed include:
Ensuring the responsible use of AI enables us to help improve results, and ultimately make a bigger impact for patients.