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Initiative overview
Technological advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) offer new opportunities to support decision making in healthcare. Yet, new medical devices must first prove their safety and usefulness before they can be adopted in clinical practice. Concerningly, there is a lack of standardized procedures and testing infrastructure for developing, testing and certifying new medical AI products.
The EU project TEF-Health addresses this gap by establishing a European reference testing and experimentation facility (TEF) to ensure that the digital transformation of our healthcare system occurs safely and for the benefit of all. In this project, 50+ interdisciplinary partners from Europe work together to develop new regulatory testing procedures for this technology. These activities include for instance developing standardized testing protocols and certifications and a testing facility to test new tools in real or realistic environments. The newly created evaluation resources and infrastructure will be made available to industry in the future in the form of fee-based services.
In the project team Responsible Algorithms at the BIH QUEST Center, we contribute to the TEF-Health project by developing services to implement ethical requirements for developing trustworthy medical AI tools. In particular, we aim to develop standardized procedures to fulfil the ethical requirements of transparency and robustness, which will be offered as services to companies.
