Hallucinations are a frequent point of concern in conversations about AI in healthcare. But what do they actually mean in practice? This was the topic of discussion during a panel held last week at the MedCity INVEST Digital Health Conference in Dallas.

According to Soumi Saha, senior vice president of government affairs at Premier Inc. and moderator of the session, AI hallucinations are when AI “uses its imagination,” which can sometimes hurt patients because it could be providing wrong information.

One of the panelists — Jennifer Goldsack, founder and CEO of the Digital Medicine Society — described AI hallucinations as the “tech equivalent of bullshit.” Randi Seigel, partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, defined it as when AI makes something up, “but it sounds like it’s a fact, so yo

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