Thread by @MarlaSammer

New @RadiologyACR #Government #Relations comments in response to an @NIH #RFI on the feasibility of public private partnerships to address pediatric medical device needs ie lack of access to #healthcare #AI for pediatric patients

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Action is urgently needed since almost all #AI in radiology has been developed for #Adults and hasn't been shown to work for pediatric patients. Here's what is recommended 🧵

1. Advocate for funding to develop #Pediatric radiology datasets that could be used for training, testing, and validation of radiology #AI

2. Validation and/or re-training of existing @US_FDA cleared adult AI software (#SaMD) for use on pediatric patients via NIH and/or public-private partnership funded studies

3. Fund new AI R&D in federal research & regulatory agencies, prioritizing and supporting #pediatric AI development since currently, pediatric AI development is rarely perceived as worth the #ROI by #industry

4. Identify & enact AI payments models in @CMSGov and legislative financial incentives that could promote development of #pediatric #AI

5.Prioritize @US_FDA regulatory agency review and resources for pediatric AI devices

6.Promote transparency in @US_FDA labelling, such as consistently providing data on patients’ demographics, including ages of patients used in the development and testing of @US_FDA authorized #AI #SaMD

7.Explore decision support alerts or other automatic fail-safes to prevent adult #AI from unwittingly being used on #pediatric patients

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