Regulatory landscape changing rapidly as AI use increases

There's still a long way to go before AI tools are fully integrated into the healthcare system, but there's enough AI already in the system that providers need to be increasingly well-versed in both the regulatory trends and the legal consequences thereof. So argues a team of attorneys from Polsinelli PC in the first of a three-part series posted in recent months at Bloomberg Law. The first thing for providers to recognize, say Iliana Peters, Liz Harding and Lindsay Dailey, is that while they may already recognize the growing role of AI in pharma circles or surgery robots, they "may not realize that the clinical decision support, claims review, and voice-to-text transcriptions tools that they use also include AI. Healthcare system IT staff also rely heavily on AI tools to detect and combat cyber threats to the information that healthcare providers need to provide quality care." And what that means is that "important state, federal, and international legal requirements" may already be in play in a way that is designed to control and monitor how personal information is used in healthcare decisions.