Becker's Healthcare December 22, 2025
Hospital and health system CIOs are reevaluating artificial intelligence governance and compliance strategies. The shift follows a Dec. 11 executive order signed by President Donald Trump that blocks states from creating AI regulations outside existing federal frameworks.
The order directs federal agencies to challenge certain state AI laws and ties future federal funding eligibility to compliance with federal policy. As federal standards evolve, CIOs say the move is prompting closer scrutiny of compliance mapping, governance accountability and vendor oversight.
For Muhammad Siddiqui, CIO at Reid Health in Richmond, Ind., the first area under review is how existing compliance efforts align with state-level AI requirements that could now be challenged or preempted.
“The first thing I’m reassessing is how our compliance...







