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Bipartisan Pennsylvania lawmakers propose AI regulations in health care
Bill would require transparency, human oversight, and bias safeguards
Part of a growing national push for AI health care laws
Physicians and patients call for stronger oversight of AI use
A bipartisan group of Pennsylvania state legislators recently hatched a plan to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in health care.
Four Pennsylvania House Democrats and one House Republican plan to introduce legislation that would require insurers, hospitals and other providers to follow certain rules when using AI for patient care, billing and coding, claims processing and other health-related services.
“As the only physician in the [Pennsylvania] General Assembly, I have seen the rapid growth of AI u