The American Telemedicine Association and its affiliated ATA Action arm announced their plans for a new AI in Virtual Care Policy Initiative this past Friday.
The new effort is billed as a member-driven project, designed to shape the policies and frameworks that will govern the use of artificial intelligence in telehealth and in virtual care.
The AI in Virtual Care Policy Initiative will be built around three working groups focused on different areas: state AI policy, federal legislation, and public policy via federal agencies.
The state AI policy workgroup will develop policy goals and recommendations for AI use in virtual care, "including clinician oversight, transparency, liability, patient consent, validation standards, and regulatory approaches that support innovation without creating a patchwork of state requirements," according to ATA.
The federal legislative group will put together recommendations for Congress on AI-enabled virtual care and other topics, such as reimbursement, access, infrastructure, clinical validation and national standards.
The federal agency and public policy workgroup will focus on nationwide guidance for AI in virtual care, tackling topics, such as "transparency, trust, clinical workflow integration, reimbursement alignment, privacy, data quality and appropriate regulatory oversight," according to ATA.
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