Q&A: AI is speeding into health care—who should regulate it?

Medical Xpress January 13, 2026
Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette

AI is moving quickly into health care, bringing potential benefits but also possible pitfalls such as bias that drives unequal care and burnout of physicians and other health care workers. It remains undecided how it should be regulated in the U.S.

In September, the hospital-accrediting Joint Commission and the Coalition for Health AI issued recommendations for implementing artificial intelligence in medical care, with the burden for compliance falling largely on individual facilities.

I. Glenn Cohen, faculty director of Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, and colleagues suggest in the Journal of the American Medical Association that the guidelines are a good start, but changes to ease likely regulatory and financial burdens—particularly on small hospital systems—are...

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