Requires hospitals and nursing facilities to establish policies for patient access to intelligent personal assistants. Ensures HIPAA compliance. Defines intelligent personal assistants as devices using AI and natural language processing. Mandates facility compliance with privacy and security standards.
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This is a binding state statute enacted by the Virginia General Assembly with mandatory language requiring hospitals and nursing facilities to establish policies for intelligent personal assistant access. The document uses mandatory language ('shall') and is part of the Virginia Code, making it legally enforceable.
The document has minimal coverage of AI risk domains, with only subdomain 2.1 (Privacy compromise) receiving a coverage score above 1. The primary focus is on healthcare facility regulations with a brief requirement for HIPAA compliance when using intelligent personal assistants. The document does not substantively address AI-specific risks beyond basic privacy protection requirements.
The document exclusively governs the Health Care and Social Assistance sector, specifically regulating hospitals, nursing homes, and certified nursing facilities. The intelligent personal assistant provisions apply only within healthcare facility contexts.
The document primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle. It requires healthcare facilities to establish policies for deploying intelligent personal assistants and ensuring ongoing compliance with privacy standards during operation.
The document explicitly defines and covers intelligent personal assistants, which are AI systems using natural language processing and artificial intelligence. It does not mention AI models, frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds.
Virginia General Assembly
The document is a legislative act enacted by the Virginia General Assembly, as indicated by the enactment clause and approval date.
Virginia Board of Health; Department of Health
The Board of Health is responsible for promulgating regulations to carry out the provisions of this article, giving it enforcement authority over the requirements.
Virginia Board of Health
The Board of Health has ongoing monitoring responsibilities through its regulatory authority over hospitals and nursing facilities, including the implementation of policies regarding intelligent personal assistants.
hospitals; nursing homes; certified nursing facilities
The regulation explicitly targets hospitals, nursing homes, and certified nursing facilities that deploy intelligent personal assistants for patient use, requiring them to establish policies for such deployment.
1 subdomain (1 Minimal)