What Utah's AI Experiment Means for Hospitals
Two leaders from the Coalition for Health AI break down the first statewide effort to regulate AI in health care.
Utah recently expanded its artificial intelligence (AI) regulatory sandbox, introducing five new agreements and a network of independent evaluators. The state aims to assess the safety and effectiveness of AI technologies that could one day perform clinical tasks, such as prescribing certain acne treatments without physician approval or automating prescription refills for chronic disease medications.
Interim Health, University of Utah Health, and CHAI (the Coalition for Health AI) have also received agreements to expedite reviews of future AI pilots. The initiative seeks to generate evidence that voluntary industry standards cannot provide, addressing urgent questions about model trustworthiness. CHAI's CEO, Dr. Brian Anderson, and general counsel, Brenton Hill, emphasized that regulators will evaluate each application individually before deciding on broader adoption, ensuring safety and effectiveness through a rigorous testing and monitoring process.
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