Regulations to govern use of AI in health records could come later this year

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is leveraging its regulatory powers to mandate a “nutrition label” for artificial intelligence use in the electronic health record systems it vets. While this proposed rule has received less attention, the inclusion of algorithms represents an important example of how Biden administration regulators are hoping to rein in AI. ONC wants to get that final rule out as soon as possible, “perhaps as early as later this year,” an ONC spokesman said in an email.