Bill > SB503

This bill requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information and the Department of Technology to establish an advisory board focused on artificial intelligence (AI) use in health care services. The bill mandates that developers of patient care decision support tools, along with health facilities, clinics, and physician's offices, must make reasonable efforts to identify and mitigate potential discrimination risks in AI tools based on protected characteristics (such as race, gender, age, etc.). Specifically, developers must test these tools for biased impacts at least every three years and work to reduce any unintended discriminatory effects. The bill defines key terms like "patient care decision support tool" as any automated or non-automated mechanism used to support clinical decision-making. It also clarifies that an organization can be both a developer and a deployer of such tools. The legislation aims to ensure that AI technologies used in healthcare do not inadvertently perpetuate bias or discrimination against patients based on their protected characteristics, thereby promoting fairness and equity in healthcare technology.

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https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB503