Prohibits covered entities from discriminating in health programs using patient care decision support tools based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. Requires identifying and mitigating discrimination risks in these tools.
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This is a binding regulatory provision from the Department of Health and Human Services that imposes mandatory obligations on covered entities with clear enforcement mechanisms through federal civil rights law.
The document has good coverage of approximately 2-3 subdomains, with strong focus on unfair discrimination (1.1), unequal performance across groups (1.3), and some coverage of lack of transparency (7.4). Coverage is concentrated in discrimination and AI system performance domains.
The document exclusively governs the Health Care and Social Assistance sector, specifically regulating the use of AI-based patient care decision support tools in health programs and activities to prevent discrimination.
The document primarily focuses on the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, requiring covered entities to identify and mitigate discrimination risks in patient care decision support tools that are already in use in health programs. There is implicit coverage of verification and validation through the risk identification and mitigation requirements.
The document explicitly mentions 'patient care decision support tools' which are AI systems used in healthcare. It does not use technical AI terminology like models, foundation models, or compute thresholds, but focuses on the functional application of AI in patient care decision-making.
Department of Health and Human Services
The document is issued by the Department of Health and Human Services as indicated in the authority field, establishing regulatory requirements for nondiscrimination in health programs.
Department of Health and Human Services
The Department of Health and Human Services, through its Office for Civil Rights, has authority to enforce nondiscrimination requirements in health programs under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.
Department of Health and Human Services
The Department of Health and Human Services monitors compliance with civil rights requirements in health programs, though specific monitoring provisions are not detailed in this excerpt.
The regulation applies to 'covered entities' which are organizations that operate health programs or activities and use patient care decision support tools. These entities deploy AI systems in healthcare settings.
2 subdomains (1 Good, 1 Minimal)