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WHO publishes six regulatory considerations for AI in health

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Source: World Health OrganizationAlso reported by PharmaTimes

The World Health Organization published regulatory considerations on AI for health on 19 October 2023. They cover six areas: documentation across the product lifecycle, risk management, external validation and intended purpose, data quality, privacy and data protection, and collaboration among regulators, patients, health workers and industry. WHO said large language models were being deployed quickly, sometimes without a full understanding of how they perform.

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National medical device regulators, especially those without AI rules of their own, gained a WHO reference list for assessing AI health products.

When
19 Oct 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0103
Who
World Health Organization; Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from World Health Organization and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at World Health Organization

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: What happened nextWHO issues guidance on large multi-modal models in health care, with 40+ recommendations

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WTA-N-2023-0103: “WHO publishes six regulatory considerations for AI in health.” wheresthe.ai, 19 Oct 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/intl-who-ai-health-regulatory-considerations-2023-10/ (source: World Health Organization).

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