Delivering Validated Digital Health for a Population: Navigating AI Risk and Regulation

Venue details: Room TL423 in Room in the Teaching and Learning Building, Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell Wing, the address is University of Strathclyde, 49 Richmond Street, Glasgow, G1 1XU

Overview

Over recent years, DHI and ORCHA have worked together to give the people of Moray access to validated digital health technologies, as part of the wider Rural Centre of Excellence research programme. This ensured trusted tools were available to local populations to support their health and wellbeing, while creating the conditions for new innovations to be developed and delivered across the area. The session opens with an evaluation of that collaboration: what we delivered, what worked, what we learned, and what it tells us about giving communities confident access to digital health at scale.

Since that work began, the assurance landscape has changed markedly. AI has arrived at scale, and with it a wave of new assurance models and standards. We will look at how expectations around evidence, safety and trust have shifted since 2022, and what that means for the organisations now responsible for choosing and deploying these technologies.

Alongside this, the regulatory picture is moving quickly, from national guidance to emerging international standards. We will set out where AI regulation currently stands and, more importantly, what it means in practice for health bodies: the obligations they carry, the questions they need to ask of suppliers, and the decisions they will face as adoption grows.

In response to this environment, a global consortium of more than 35 organisations, regulators and academics from across the world has developed the AI Risk Profiler, a method that identifies the risks AI technologies carry, supports their mitigation, and provides the gap analysis needed to manage, compare and procure technologies with confidence. It doesn't replace existing regulation. Instead, it draws that regulation together into a practical method and tool for processing and managing risk. This session introduces the tool, the research behind it and the emerging findings, and explores what they mean for a digital and AI-enabled future in Scotland.

Who this session is for?

The session is designed for decision makers and those holding accountability or leadership for digital across Scotland, whether in policy, delivery or procurement. Participants will leave with practical evidence and a clear view of how emerging assurance methods can support the decisions they face next.

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