AI adoption: Experts seek regulations to protect patients

Experts in Nigeria are seeking regulations to protect patients as the adoption of artificial intelligence in healthcare grows, according to a report from guardian.ng. The report is titled 'AI adoption: Experts seek regulations to protect patients.' It states that the experts are calling for discussions that would feed into existing health policies and national planning. No individual expert is named in the excerpt, and no organisation employing them is identified.

The report states that the organisers of an upcoming summit aim to produce a national roadmap for AI and healthcare, alongside policy recommendations. The excerpt does not name the summit, its organisers, its date or its location.

The article frames the experts' request as an input to existing health policies and national planning, and describes the summit's intended output as a roadmap together with policy recommendations. The excerpt does not state whether any ministry or regulator has responded to the request, whether the recommendations would be binding on healthcare providers, or when the summit is due to take place. The report does not describe any specific incident involving AI and patient harm, and appears in the health section of guardian.ng.