Extended Intelligence in Medicine | American Medical Association

AMA House of Delegates uses the term Augmented Intelligence (AI) as a conceptualization of artificial intelligence focusing on the supporting role of AI, emphasizing that its design enhances human intelligence rather than replacing it.

AMA is committed to ensuring that AI can advance clinical care and maximize its potential to improve clinician well-being. With the number of AI-enabled healthcare tools continuing to grow, design, development and deployment in an ethical, fair and responsible way is critical. The use of AI in healthcare must be transparent to both physicians and patients.

In addition to medical devices, AI is increasingly being used to reduce the burden on healthcare management or physicians, requiring policies and guidance for both device and non-device healthcare AI. Recognise this and AMA A new policy has been developed (PDF) Addressing the development, deployment and use of healthcare AI with a special emphasis:

• Healthcare AI Monitoring
• When will we disclose to improve AI transparency?
• Generated AI Policy and Governance
• Physician's responsibility for the use of AI-enabled technologies
• AI Data Privacy and Cyber Security
• Using AI and automated decision-making systems payers

In 2023, the AMA conducted a comprehensive study of the sentiment of over 1,000 physicians towards the use of AI in healthcare, including current use, key concerns, maximum opportunities for adoption and future motivations. (PDF). The objectives of this study are as follows:

• Capturing emotions among practitioners regarding the increased use of AI in healthcare
• Evaluate AI use cases based on familiarity, relevance, and usefulness
• Identify key resources and areas of need for physicians to consider implementing AI tools for practice

Doctors are primarily keen on the potential of AI in healthcare, with 68% seeing at least some advantages in AI use from 65% in 2023. It also increased from 38% in 2023 to 66% of doctors reporting using a certain type of AI tool in 2024.

However, there are still important concerns as doctors continue to explore how these tools influence their practices. Implementation guidance and research, including clinical evidence, remains important to help physicians adopt AI tools.

AI plays an increasingly important role at all stages of the medical education continuum, both as a tool for educators and learners and as a research subject. AI could transform educational experiences as part of precision education and patient care as part of precision health. Learn more about how AI can affect medical education.

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AMA partners with technology and healthcare leaders to bring important insights into the potential applications of AI and ensure physicians are speaking up as they shape the role of AI in medicine.

• AMA welcomes the new federal government 2025 Action Plans for AI and the opportunity to work with the administration to address key areas in shaping AI regulations, policies, and implementation. learn more.
• AMA Issue Brief (PDF) provides a brief overview of recent state legislative activities and explains three key areas of AI policy for state legislative/regulatory activities. Use of AI health plans, transparency, and physician responsibility.
• To develop practical guidance for AI in healthcare, AMA reviewed the literature on issues that healthcare AI has brought and reflected existing guidance. These findings are published in new papers Journal of Medical Systems: Trustworthy expansion intelligence in healthcare.
• The AMA Intelligent Platform CPT® Developer Program gives developers access to the latest content and resources. Access the Developer Portal on the AMA Intelligent Platform.

The current CPT® codeset promotes communication across healthcare by enabling seamless processing and advanced analysis of medical procedures and services.

AMA offers an updated CPT® codeset for categorizing a variety of AI applications, as well as several resources to provide advisory expertise through the Digital Medical Payment Advisory Group (DMPAG). DMPAG identifies barriers to digital medicine adoption and proposes comprehensive solutions for coding, payments, compensation, and more.

Stay up to date with CPT® codes, access applications and standards for frequently asked questions.

As medically understanding of applications grows, we learn how AI is used in healthcare. The AMA article focuses on advances in content coding to reflect the emergence of digital health and diagnosis, and how AI should be incorporated into physician training.

Stay up to date with healthcare AI information, including the latest news, trends, AMA statements and more.

While technical capabilities exist in tools that transform AI algorithms and healthcare, the real challenge remains to ensure that the tools are developed, implemented and maintained responsibly. Find out more on AMA.

From terminology to current and future use cases to address risks, explore the current landscape of AI in medicine. Download the report now.

The AMA Board is responsible for implementing AMA policies. Given the number of stakeholders and policymakers involved in the evolution of AI in healthcare, it is important that AMA not only adopt basic level policies to guide engagement, but also continue to improve their policies equally as this technology develops.

The AMA Board Report included here summarizes the need for additional AMA policies for AI. Through AMA PolicyFinder, users can search for current AI policy initiatives.

Explore the components of AI in healthcare and delve into the potential challenges and opportunities for physicians. An article on Ama Ed Hub™ explores how AI, which is used ethically, has the power to act as a transformative and powerful tool for physicians.