June 24, 2024 — Legislative efforts throughout quite a few states in 2024 targeted on the combination of synthetic intelligence (AI) in healthcare, reflecting a number of tendencies and priorities. Many states are proposing regulatory frameworks that embody the formation of workgroups, committees and boards to check and oversee AI implementation, guaranteeing moral requirements and information privateness are maintained.
Laws directed at stopping algorithmic discrimination in healthcare settings is changing into prevalent, aiming to guard sufferers from biases in AI-driven decision-making processes. Numerous payments focused utilization administration in medical insurance, with the objective of guaranteeing moral use and safeguarding affected person rights. The state legislatures are additionally contemplating measures associated to affected person consent and disclosure, looking for to mandate transparency in growth and use of AI purposes.
Notable legislative efforts embody:
California
CA Meeting Invoice 3030 , Well being Care Companies: Synthetic Intelligence. As written, the invoice would mandate that any well being facility, clinic, doctor’s workplace or group follow workplace utilizing generative AI to generate affected person communications should embody a disclaimer notifying the affected person that the communication was AI generated and supply clear directions for contacting a human healthcare supplier. The invoice handed the Meeting and is at the moment within the Senate.
CA Senate Invoice (SB) 1120 . The proposed measure stipulates {that a} denial, delay, or modification of healthcare providers based mostly on medical necessity shall be made by a licensed doctor or different healthcare supplier competent to judge the particular medical points concerned within the healthcare providers requested by the supplier and with the identical or comparable specialty because the requesting supplier. This invoice would require algorithms, AI and different software program instruments used for utilization evaluate or utilization administration choices of a healthcare service plan to adjust to specified necessities, together with that they be pretty and equitably utilized. The invoice handed the Senate and is at the moment within the Meeting.
Colorado
CO SB24-205 . The invoice, signed by Gov. Jared Polis in Might, requires builders of high-risk AI methods to make use of cheap care to keep away from algorithmic discrimination. Compliance provisions embody disclosing specified details about the high-risk system to deployers, offering crucial documentation for impression assessments, publicly summarizing the sorts of methods developed, and reporting dangers of algorithmic discrimination to the legal professional basic and deployers inside 90 days of discovery.
Georgia
GA Senate Decision 476 . The decision created the Senate Examine Committee on Synthetic Intelligence to discover the potential and implications of AI know-how. Recognizing AI’s capability to spur innovation and rework sectors comparable to healthcare, the committee goals to deal with each the alternatives and challenges introduced by AI developments. The committee will deal with establishing moral requirements to make sure the know-how preserves the dignity, autonomy and self-determination of people.
Illinois
IL Home Invoice (HB) 5116 , Automated Determination Instruments Act. The invoice would mandate that, by Jan. 1, 2026, and yearly thereafter, deployers of automated resolution instruments should conduct an impression evaluation on any such instruments they use, design, code or produce. Moreover, the act would require any particular person topic to a consequential resolution made or considerably influenced by an automatic resolution instrument be notified of its use and supplied with specified info. The invoice was referred to the Home Guidelines Committee.
Oregon
OR HB 4153 . The enacted invoice established a Activity Pressure on Synthetic Intelligence to look at and establish phrases and definitions associated to AI for potential legislative use. The duty drive is required to report its findings and suggestions to the interim committee of the Legislative Meeting associated to info administration and know-how by Dec. 1.
Rhode Island
RI HB 8073 . The invoice would mandate protection for using AI know-how for evaluation of breast tissue diagnostic imaging if the imaging and evaluate generated by AI is independently reviewed and accepted of by a doctor certified to learn and interpret breast tissue diagnostic imaging.
Utah
UT SB 149 . Synthetic Intelligence Coverage Act. The act, signed by Gov. Spencer Cox, creates the Workplace of Synthetic Intelligence Coverage and a regulatory AI evaluation program. Amongst different provisions, it requires that an individual who makes use of, prompts or in any other case causes generative AI to work together with an individual shall clearly and conspicuously disclose that the particular person is interacting with generative AI and never a human.
Washington
WA SB 5838 . The enacted invoice created a activity drive to evaluate present makes use of and tendencies by personal and public sector entities and make suggestions to the legislature relating to requirements for the use and regulation of AI.
West Virginia
WV HB 5690 . The enacted invoice created the West Virginia Activity Pressure on Synthetic Intelligence, tasked with recommending a definition of AI, figuring out the related state company or businesses to develop and oversee AI coverage, growing finest practices for public sector makes use of of AI within the state, in addition to recommending laws to guard particular person rights, civil liberties, and shopper information because it pertains to generative AI.
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