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California lawmakers convene joint hearing on generative AI in health care; experts urge cautious, equity-focused rollout
Summary
A joint informational hearing of the California State Assembly Health and Privacy committees drew health-system leaders, vendors, researchers and advocates to discuss current uses of generative AI in clinics and hospitals, early outcome data, and gaps in governance, data access and equity that state policy could address.
Lawmakers and health leaders met in a joint informational hearing of the California State Assembly Health Committee and Privacy Committee to review how generative artificial intelligence is being used in health care and what state policy should require to protect patients and support equitable adoption.
The hearing gathered health-system executives, developers and patient advocates to describe early deployments — ambient scribes that draft clinical notes, AI that triages imaging and speeds treatment, and predictive models used in obstetrics — and to highlight persistent risks: bias in training data, unclear developer/deployer liability, privacy and data-access constraints, and the danger that under-resourced safety-net providers will be left behind.
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