Requires the Comptroller General to assess and report on wearable medical devices' capabilities and limitations in clinical decision-making, focusing on AI's benefits and challenges, and proposing policy options to enhance benefits and mitigate challenges.
Mandates the Comptroller General to conduct a technology assessment of wearable medical devices within 18 months of the Act's enactment.
Requires the report to include an analysis of the devices' potential to accurately prescribe treatments.
Examines the benefits and challenges of using artificial intelligence to augment wearable medical devices.
Proposes policy options to enhance benefits and mitigate challenges in developing or using such devices.
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SEC. 105. REPORT ON WEARABLE MEDICAL DEVICES.
Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a technology assessment of, and submit to Congress a report on, the capabilities and limitations of wearable medical devices used to support clinical decision-making. Such report shall include a description of—
(1) the potential for such devices to accurately prescribe treatments;
(2) an examination of the benefits and challenges of artificial intelligence to augment such capabilities; and
(3) policy options to enhance the benefits and mitigate potential challenges of developing or using such devices.
Requires the Comptroller General to report on wearable medical devices' capabilities, limitations, and policy options.
Requires the Comptroller General to report on wearable medical devices' capabilities, limitations, and policy options.