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San Francisco DPH outlines AI policy, governance and use cases; emphasizes equity and vendor transparency
Summary
DPH presented an AI policy and governance plan that prioritizes equity, transparency and layered review; the department will buy AI solutions, has created an AI subcommittee, and is piloting partnerships (including a private GPT with UCSF) while flagging California laws such as AB 3030 that require AI disclosures in health care.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health presented its approach to artificial intelligence to the Health Commission, emphasizing governance, equity and vendor transparency as central commitments.
Chief Information Officer Eric Raffin said the department will generally "buy, not build" AI and will tie AI investments to measurable DPH objectives and process-improvement work. Raffin summarized eight guiding principles in DPH's AI policy, singling out equity, beneficence/non-maleficence, and transparency as priorities. "Transparency and accountabilityare the heavy lifting part," he said, and described an AI intake and review process that will require vendors to…
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