Your guide to how policymakers are regulating AI in healthcare
Second Opinion July 11, 2024
We’ve compiled all the major U.S. laws and policies so you don’t have to
If you had to summarize the job of state and federal regulators shaping AI policy for the healthcare sector in one sentence it would be this: Balancing all the promises of artificial intelligence, while preventing potential harm. As the American Hospital Association (AHA) has pointed out, one of the big potential problems with regulating AI is that it’s not monolithic, so regulation will be most effective when it’s specific to the unique risks posed by the technology in question. AHA urged Congress to regulate AI in a manner that’s similar to how it regulates software. At the same time, there are already some laws and...