Horizon’s Joel White spoke with Politico about the use of artificial intelligence and healthcare. The conversation touched on practical ways the Trump administration could deploy within the healthcare system for a myriad of uses.
Joel White, a Republican health care strategist and president of lobbying group Horizon Government Affairs, said there might be more practical ways the administration could use AI in health care. As an example, he noted that doctors with Medicare patients spend billions of dollars and hundreds of hours reporting quality metrics to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
“If we deployed an AI tool, for example, that could look at every single quality measure that a physician reported, we could start to detect trends and patterns across doctors, and we could drill down into the specifics on how well each doctor performs,” he said.
Such a tool might lead to policies that pay more to doctors who deliver better outcomes for patients and less to those who underperform, he added.
He also expects the administration to use AI to audit agencies.
“They’re looking at every program, every rule, and every dollar spent, and they’re going to ask, ‘Does this make sense?’” he said.