The Joint Commission and the Coalition for Health AI released Guidance on Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare, which will serve as internal governance to help U.S. health systems safely and effectively implement artificial intelligence at scale.
This guidance, which features high-level recommendations for the responsible use of AI, is designed to be accessible, applicable and adaptable for healthcare organizations at any stage of their AI journey.
A series of products are slated to launch later this year and into 2026. The next release will be governance playbooks, after a series of workshops are conducted to ensure hospitals and health systems of all sizes and regions are contributing to its development. The playbooks will be built on the original guidance, incorporating the feedback received from the community, and providing more practical and applied details. Following that, Joint Commission will develop a voluntary AI certification based on the final set of playbooks and open it to its more than 22,000 accredited and certified healthcare organizations nationwide. The guidance is available here.
