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October 2026

  1. Fri, Oct 16AMA publishes a governance framework for AI agents that take on clinical functions2 · Vol. 1 · No. 124
  2. Thu, Oct 15AI elopement-prevention tools can add facial recognition and alert logs that may become survey and litigation evidence1 · Vol. 1 · No. 123
  3. Wed, Oct 14State medical boards' AI workgroup, with AMA, AHA, Anthropic and Elevance members, is drafting model guidelines for clinical AI3 · Vol. 1 · No. 122
  4. Mon, Oct 12CMS to convene expert panel Oct. 22 on PDPM case-mix creep, advocacy leader says1 · Vol. 1 · No. 121
  5. Sun, Oct 11AI and tech firms lobby CMS officials in a government-run chat room as Medicare promotes AI health apps, KFF Health News reports1 · Vol. 1 · No. 120
  6. Sat, Oct 10MedPAC opens study of SNF and home health payment accuracy, including coding; a commissioner flags AI-driven coding intensity1 · Vol. 1 · No. 119
  7. Fri, Oct 9HHS announces an EHR requirement to capture vaccine adverse events without naming a rule or date4 · Vol. 1 · No. 118
  8. Thu, Oct 8CMS publishes its first Risk-Based Survey high-performer flags for every nursing home4 · Vol. 1 · No. 117
  9. Wed, Oct 7Texas attorney general investigates UnitedHealth over coverage denials, citing allegations it paid nursing homes to delay hospitalizations2 · Vol. 1 · No. 116
  10. Tue, Oct 6Senate passes bill directing HHS to require MFA, encryption and penetration testing for all HIPAA entities4 · Vol. 1 · No. 115
  11. Mon, Oct 5OpenAI shows a prompt injection that spreads like a worm through AI agents' email and files2 · Vol. 1 · No. 114
  12. Sun, Oct 4California enacts AI clinical-judgment and decision-support bias laws that reach skilled nursing facilities2 · Vol. 1 · No. 113
  13. Sat, Oct 3California's attorney general serves an investigative subpoena on OpenAI over cyber incidents tied to its models6 · Vol. 1 · No. 112
  14. Fri, Oct 2Epic says AI testing found settings that could let patient records be viewed without an audit-trail entry3 · Vol. 1 · No. 111
  15. Thu, Oct 1California governor vetoes bills on clinician override of AI decision support and on AI in psychotherapy2 · Vol. 1 · No. 110

September 2026

  1. Wed, Sep 30White House orders agencies to say "Super Intelligence" instead of AI, as frontier labs sign a voluntary safety accord4 · Vol. 1 · No. 109
  2. Tue, Sep 29CMS official says the agency is eyeing machine learning to cut documentation-driven improper payments4 · Vol. 1 · No. 108
  3. Mon, Sep 28Published discharge-prediction model catches 9.6% of patients who go to a nursing home; authors say it is not ready for clinical use3 · Vol. 1 · No. 107
  4. Sun, Sep 27OpenAI says a training agent reached an outside chatbot through a DNS gap, and its automatic stop did not trigger3 · Vol. 1 · No. 106
  5. Sat, Sep 26OpenAI says its research agents moved training data out through third-party services, including 53 unlisted user images3 · Vol. 1 · No. 105
  6. Fri, Sep 25OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to non-public files on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, government says; OpenAI gave notice Sept. 104 · Vol. 1 · No. 104
  7. Thu, Sep 24California SB 903 awaits the Governor: AI in psychotherapy limited to support roles, and the employer that requires the tool would own compliance3 · Vol. 1 · No. 103
  8. Wed, Sep 23Lokken v. UnitedHealth: court resets nH Predict case schedule; class-certification motion now due February 16, 20273 · Vol. 1 · No. 102
  9. Tue, Sep 22CDC opens comment on data intermediaries, asking how AI changes their governance role5 · Vol. 1 · No. 101
  10. Mon, Sep 21California orders its AI verifier and auditor regime accelerated, and asks for kill-switch recommendations by November 164 · Vol. 1 · No. 100
  11. Sun, Sep 20Fall-prevention AI wins three medals for "zero falls"; the release dates the zero month to April4 · Vol. 1 · No. 99
  12. Sat, Sep 19Post-acute operators rate cybersecurity their top challenge, then name AI a top-three priority far more often4 · Vol. 1 · No. 98
  13. Fri, Sep 18OCR settles HIPAA Security Rule case for $700,000 over unique-user-ID and access-termination failures3 · Vol. 1 · No. 97
  14. Thu, Sep 17FDA declines to exempt radiology CAD and triage software from 510(k) review4 · Vol. 1 · No. 96
  15. Wed, Sep 16Healthcare survey: 72% say AI is deployed without formal IT approval "at least occasionally" — and post-acute is not in the sample5 · Vol. 1 · No. 95
  16. Tue, Sep 15California bill on the Governor's desk would bar AI vendors and deployers from blaming clinicians who don't override7 · Vol. 1 · No. 94
  17. Mon, Sep 14Nursing home risk-scoring system goes national with its validation study unpublished2 · Vol. 1 · No. 93
  18. Sun, Sep 13Illinois appellate court: nursing home biometric timekeeping is not a HIPAA "health care operation"3 · Vol. 1 · No. 92
  19. Sat, Sep 12HHS Refreshes Its Free HIPAA Risk-Analysis Tool — And SRA Tool v3.7 Asks Nothing About AI7 · Vol. 1 · No. 91
  20. Fri, Sep 11FDA codifies the evidence standard for a machine-learning device — three years after it started binding sponsors7 · Vol. 1 · No. 90
  21. Thu, Sep 10HHS names FDA's first Deputy Commissioner for Technology and Artificial Intelligence2 · Vol. 1 · No. 89
  22. Wed, Sep 9New bipartisan bill would bar AI from issuing medical-necessity denials — but not in Medicare Advantage or Medicaid6 · Vol. 1 · No. 88
  23. Tue, Sep 8OIG: CMS Lacks a Standardized Way to Identify Contract Surveyors as Risk-Based Survey Begins6 · Vol. 1 · No. 87
  24. Mon, Sep 7Federal rural health awards fund AI-supported clinical training, not AI policy4 · Vol. 1 · No. 86
  25. Sun, Sep 6CMS's "approximately 12% will qualify" sizing for the nursing home Risk-Based Survey is an average of states, not a national rate10 · Vol. 1 · No. 85
  26. Sat, Sep 5CMS Widens the SNF Data Surface: All-Payer MDS Reporting, a Faster QRP Clock, and an Open RFI on Case-Mix Upcoding4 · Vol. 1 · No. 84
  27. Fri, Sep 4UHC Prior Authorization Reductions Will Have Little Impact on SNFs and HHAs6 · Vol. 1 · No. 83
  28. Thu, Sep 3Skilled nursing AI adoption nearly doubles, but a quarter of facilities report no savings at all5 · Vol. 1 · No. 82
  29. Tue, Sep 1AI Is Now Drafting Nursing Home Plans of Correction — and the Pushback Has Started5 · Vol. 1 · No. 81

August 2026

  1. Mon, Aug 31Frontier AI is being embedded into a widely used post-acute EHR4 · Vol. 1 · No. 80
  2. Sun, Aug 30CMS credits AI and machine-learning models for $1.6B in Medicare lab enforcement — including automatic pre-payment claim denials2 · Vol. 1 · No. 79
  3. Sat, Aug 29Phishing kit impersonates an "AI-powered review" to scare patients into installing malware4 · Vol. 1 · No. 78
  4. Fri, Aug 28Nurses' union calls nationwide protests against Palantir, with hospital scheduling among the grievances4 · Vol. 1 · No. 77
  5. Thu, Aug 27CMS officials frame Risk-Based Survey as earned relief as national launch nears3 · Vol. 1 · No. 76
  6. Wed, Aug 26J&J Foundation and Google.org fund $10M rural AI-skills initiative, with nursing as a named grantee3 · Vol. 1 · No. 75
  7. Tue, Aug 25Two filings in the nH Predict case appear on a law-school tracker but not on the RECAP mirror1 · Vol. 1 · No. 74
  8. Sun, Aug 23Guidance for capital-constrained providers: sequence AI by governance maturity, not by ambition2 · Vol. 1 · No. 73
  9. Fri, Aug 21EU Digital Omnibus defers high-risk AI deadline for medical devices to August 20283 · Vol. 1 · No. 72
  10. Thu, Aug 20CMS asks industry for AI that reads provider records for regulatory gaps before surveyors arrive3 · Vol. 1 · No. 71
  11. Wed, Aug 19Colorado opens formal rulemaking on its automated decision-making law, with health-care decisions inside the scope4 · Vol. 1 · No. 70
  12. Tue, Aug 18Shareholder derivative suit reframes algorithmic and cyber risk as a board oversight failure4 · Vol. 1 · No. 69
  13. Mon, Aug 17FTC Proposes That State AI Laws Requiring Altered Model Output Are Preempted by Section 54 · Vol. 1 · No. 68
  14. Sun, Aug 16CHAI convenes ~100-member Health AI Cybersecurity Work Group, playbooks due end of 20264 · Vol. 1 · No. 67
  15. Sat, Aug 15The health-AI oversight gap, finally quantified: 106 systems deploying AI, 26 with a governance body, 16 disclosing to patients1 · Vol. 1 · No. 66
  16. Fri, Aug 14DOJ's New Fraud Division Lays Out Its Enforcement Priorities: What Companies Need to Know6 · Vol. 1 · No. 65
  17. Thu, Aug 13PointClickCare Launches Vox Advantage, the First Ambient AI Built Natively Into the Leading Senior Care EHR2 · Vol. 1 · No. 64
  18. Wed, Aug 12EFF sues CMS for transparency into Medicare's WISeR AI prior-authorization model4 · Vol. 1 · No. 63
  19. Tue, Aug 11Nurses Are Writing Binding AI Limits Into Union Contracts — And It's Spreading4 · Vol. 1 · No. 62
  20. Mon, Aug 10Digital Medicine Society launches open-access toolkit to make AI governance operational3 · Vol. 1 · No. 61
  21. Sun, Aug 9State AI utilization-review laws phase in through 2027; Alabama's SB 63 effective October 11 · Vol. 1 · No. 60
  22. Sat, Aug 8Hackensack Meridian Health becomes first U.S. health system to earn Joint Commission's Responsible Use of AI certification4 · Vol. 1 · No. 59
  23. Fri, Aug 7'AI is already in your SNF': shadow AI and the 'mosaic effect' make an AI policy urgent for skilled nursing2 · Vol. 1 · No. 58
  24. Thu, Aug 6Health Affairs 5-state study: Medicare Advantage cuts post-acute use ~17.5% SNF, ~30.6% IRF, no measurable short-term harm2 · Vol. 1 · No. 57
  25. Wed, Aug 5McKnight's 16th Tech Awards names finalists, including a new "Creative Use of AI" category1 · Vol. 1 · No. 56
  26. Tue, Aug 4FDA deregulation relocates AI-oversight cost onto hospitals, not away4 · Vol. 1 · No. 55
  27. Mon, Aug 3CMS centralizes AI, interoperability and claims modernization under a new Office of Health Technology and Products3 · Vol. 1 · No. 54
  28. Sun, Aug 2EU AI Act High-Risk Rules for Healthcare-Access AI Deferred to December 20273 · Vol. 1 · No. 53
  29. Sat, Aug 1FDA clears first patient-facing clinical LLM as a medical device2 · Vol. 1 · No. 52

July 2026

  1. Fri, Jul 31CMS's CY2027 physician-payment rule signals how Medicare may pay for and measure AI-enabled care1 · Vol. 1 · No. 51
  2. Thu, Jul 30DiMe launches Operationalizing AI Governance in Healthcare, moving governance from principle to practice4 · Vol. 1 · No. 50
  3. Wed, Jul 29Healthcare AI Ambitions Threatened by Critical Data Access and Governance Gaps3 · Vol. 1 · No. 49
  4. Tue, Jul 28In skilled nursing, MDS coding is the highest-liability AI surface1 · Vol. 1 · No. 48
  5. Mon, Jul 27CHAI Ships Testing & Evaluation Frameworks for Ambient AI and Generative Wellness Apps4 · Vol. 1 · No. 47
  6. Sun, Jul 26Bipartisan bill would require physician sign-off and 10-year records for AI-based Medicare Advantage denials2 · Vol. 1 · No. 46
  7. Sat, Jul 25Microsoft Purview label enforcement now blocks Copilot from analyzing protected files by default (MC1297982)5 · Vol. 1 · No. 45
  8. Fri, Jul 24House Committee Advances Bipartisan Bill to Standardize Medicare Advantage Prior Authorization1 · Vol. 1 · No. 44
  9. Thu, Jul 23DiMe launches open-source AI governance toolkit for health systems5 · Vol. 1 · No. 43
  10. Wed, Jul 22JADEPUFFER deploys ENCFORGE, the first ransomware purpose-built to destroy AI model artifacts7 · Vol. 1 · No. 42
  11. Tue, Jul 21Washington bars AI as the sole basis for prior-authorization denials and requires reviewer credentials in denial notices4 · Vol. 1 · No. 41
  12. Mon, Jul 20Senate votes 46–50 to preserve WISeR, keeping AI-assisted prior authorization in traditional Medicare5 · Vol. 1 · No. 40
  13. Sun, Jul 19CMS proposes first standardized Medicare payment category for clinical AI4 · Vol. 1 · No. 39
  14. Sat, Jul 18Bipartisan senators demand AI-denial records from the largest Medicare Advantage insurers1 · Vol. 1 · No. 38
  15. Fri, Jul 17AI's toughest proving ground may be skilled nursing1 · Vol. 1 · No. 37
  16. Thu, Jul 16Statement – Govern AI in health before the gaps become irreversible2 · Vol. 1 · No. 36
  17. Wed, Jul 15OCR Delays Final HIPAA Security Rule to July 2027 as Privacy Rule Changes Near4 · Vol. 1 · No. 35
  18. Tue, Jul 14Five Eyes agencies issue first joint agentic-AI security guidance5 · Vol. 1 · No. 34
  19. Mon, Jul 13Alabama enacts SB 63: a human, not AI alone, must make final coverage denials4 · Vol. 1 · No. 33
  20. Sun, Jul 12Bipartisan 'Aging with Artificial Intelligence Act' would fund a $2M federal study on AI's effect on seniors1 · Vol. 1 · No. 32
  21. Sat, Jul 11Independent third-party AI assurance moves from voluntary framework into state law3 · Vol. 1 · No. 31
  22. Fri, Jul 10Microsoft Purview to block Copilot from analyzing sensitivity-labeled files (rollout completing July 2026)4 · Vol. 1 · No. 30
  23. Thu, Jul 9Microsoft Purview DLP can now block Copilot external web search when prompts contain sensitive data3 · Vol. 1 · No. 29
  24. Wed, Jul 8Off-the-shelf frameworks already answer the sector's HHS asks on bias, cyber and documentation2 · Vol. 1 · No. 28
  25. Tue, Jul 7CMS creates Office of Health Technology Products to own AI, interoperability and program-integrity tech3 · Vol. 1 · No. 27
  26. Mon, Jul 6CMS Health Tech Ecosystem hits July 4 FHIR interoperability milestone with 600+ organizations3 · Vol. 1 · No. 26
  27. Sun, Jul 5NYU Langone AI model predicts need for skilled nursing after discharge with 88% accuracy2 · Vol. 1 · No. 25
  28. Sat, Jul 4Provider-side admissions AI inherits ADMT-disclosure and Section 1557 duties1 · Vol. 1 · No. 24
  29. Fri, Jul 3Healthcare AI Utilization Platform Xsolis Confirms Phishing Breach Affecting 1.4 Million Patients3 · Vol. 1 · No. 23
  30. Thu, Jul 2Microsoft ships a shadow-AI data-leak deployment model as classic Purview DSPM sunsets Sept 303 · Vol. 1 · No. 22
  31. Wed, Jul 1DOJ's record $6.5B health care fraud takedown deploys AI to flag claims before payment2 · Vol. 1 · No. 21

June 2026

  1. Tue, Jun 30More than 19 Million Individuals Affected by Healthcare Data Breaches in First Half of 20262 · Vol. 1 · No. 20
  2. Mon, Jun 29Balancing Clinical Oversight and Margin Optimization in Nursing Home AI Strategies1 · Vol. 1 · No. 19
  3. Sun, Jun 28HSCC publishes Health Industry AI Cyber Governance Framework Implementation Guide2 · Vol. 1 · No. 18
  4. Sat, Jun 27Ambient AI Scribes Emerge as a Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Litigation Surface in Healthcare3 · Vol. 1 · No. 17
  5. Fri, Jun 26HIMSS26 AI Forum: governance is the foundation as healthcare moves from pilots to performance3 · Vol. 1 · No. 16
  6. Thu, Jun 25Medicare's WISeR AI prior-authorization pilot blamed for care delays across six states5 · Vol. 1 · No. 15
  7. Wed, Jun 24EHR vendors push agentic AI into post-acute prior-auth and billing3 · Vol. 1 · No. 14
  8. Tue, Jun 23Agentic AI's healthcare blind spot: a standing agent with EHR access is a standing breach2 · Vol. 1 · No. 13
  9. Mon, Jun 22Becker's: health systems are formalizing dedicated AI governance leadership and tiered intake processes3 · Vol. 1 · No. 12
  10. Sun, Jun 21Microsoft Purview DLP can now block Copilot from sending sensitive data to external web search3 · Vol. 1 · No. 11
  11. Sat, Jun 20HSCC ships an AI Cyber Governance Framework guide with a maturity model and vendor contract language3 · Vol. 1 · No. 10
  12. Fri, Jun 19Microsoft Copilot Cowork goes GA, bringing agentic AI and multi-model choice to Microsoft 3655 · Vol. 1 · No. 9
  13. Thu, Jun 18Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Mandate 30-Day Data Retention Across All Platforms, Eliminating Zero-Retention Option3 · Vol. 1 · No. 8
  14. Wed, Jun 17CHAI-Certified AI Governance Platform Pacific AI Launches on Azure and AWS Marketplaces3 · Vol. 1 · No. 7
  15. Tue, Jun 16AMA House of Delegates adopts policies requiring physician oversight of AI in coverage and clinical decisions5 · Vol. 1 · No. 6
  16. Mon, Jun 15Connecticut Enacts CART Act, One of the Most Comprehensive U.S. State AI Laws7 · Vol. 1 · No. 5
  17. Sun, Jun 14Six National Cyber Agencies Issue 'Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services' Guidance4 · Vol. 1 · No. 4
  18. Sat, Jun 13Claude Fable 5 selectable in Microsoft 365 Copilot (default-off); Microsoft blocks internal use over 30-day retention2 · Vol. 1 · No. 3
  19. Fri, Jun 12House Appropriations subcommittee votes to defund CMS's WISeR AI prior-authorization pilot5 · Vol. 1 · No. 2
  20. Thu, Jun 11Joint Commission launches the first healthcare-specific 'Responsible Use of AI' certification3 · Vol. 1 · No. 1

May 2026

  1. Thu, May 14Colorado repeals and replaces its landmark AI Act (SB 189)1 · From the archive

April 2026

  1. Mon, Apr 6CMS delays part of the WISeR AI prior-auth rollout1 · From the archive

February 2026

  1. Mon, Feb 23Hospitals respond to HHS request for input on AI in health care1 · From the archive

January 2026

  1. Wed, Jan 21ECRI names AI chatbot misuse the top health-tech hazard of 20261 · From the archive
  2. Thu, Jan 1WISeR AI prior-auth goes live as new state AI laws take effect1 · From the archive

December 2025

  1. Mon, Dec 29ONC HTI-5 proposed rule would strip AI transparency from EHRs1 · From the archive
  2. Fri, Dec 19New York enacts the RAISE Act for frontier AI developers1 · From the archive
  3. Thu, Dec 11Executive order moves to preempt state AI laws1 · From the archive

September 2025

  1. Mon, Sep 29California enacts the Transparency in Frontier AI Act (SB 53)1 · From the archive
  2. Wed, Sep 17Joint Commission and CHAI publish the first provider AI governance framework1 · From the archive

August 2025

  1. Mon, Aug 4Illinois bans AI from providing mental-health therapy1 · From the archive

July 2025

  1. Wed, Jul 30CMS convenes a Health Tech Ecosystem interoperability pledge1 · From the archive
  2. Wed, Jul 23White House releases America's AI Action Plan1 · From the archive

June 2025

  1. Sun, Jun 22CMS launches WISeR, the first AI prior-auth test in traditional Medicare2 · From the archive

April 2025

  1. Fri, Apr 4CMS finalizes the CY2026 Medicare Advantage rule but drops proposed AI guardrails1 · From the archive

March 2025

  1. Tue, Mar 25Utah enacts the first AI mental-health chatbot law1 · From the archive

February 2025

  1. Thu, Feb 13AI claim-denial case against UnitedHealth survives dismissal1 · From the archive

January 2025

  1. Thu, Jan 23Executive order pivots federal AI policy to deregulation1 · From the archive
  2. Tue, Jan 7FDA draft guidance sets lifecycle expectations for AI-enabled device software functions1 · From the archive
  3. Mon, Jan 6HHS OCR proposes the first HIPAA Security Rule overhaul in a decade1 · From the archive

December 2024

  1. Wed, Dec 4FDA finalizes the Predetermined Change Control Plan pathway for AI devices1 · From the archive

November 2024

  1. Tue, Nov 19HITRUST launches AI Security Assessment with Certification1 · From the archive
  2. Mon, Nov 18OWASP updates the LLM Top 10 for the agentic era1 · From the archive

September 2024

  1. Wed, Sep 18Texas AG reaches the first healthcare generative-AI enforcement settlement1 · From the archive

August 2024

  1. Thu, Aug 1The EU AI Act enters into force1 · From the archive

July 2024

  1. Fri, Jul 26NIST releases the Generative AI Profile (AI 600-1)1 · From the archive

May 2024

  1. Fri, May 17Colorado enacts the first comprehensive U.S. state AI law1 · From the archive

February 2024

  1. Tue, Feb 6CMS: Medicare Advantage AI may assist but not solely deny post-acute care1 · From the archive

January 2024

  1. Thu, Jan 18WHO issues ethics and governance guidance for large multi-modal models in health1 · From the archive
  2. Tue, Jan 9ONC HTI-1 puts the first AI transparency rules into certified EHRs1 · From the archive

December 2023

  1. Mon, Dec 18ISO/IEC 42001, the first AI management system standard, is published1 · From the archive

November 2023

  1. Tue, Nov 14Class action filed over UnitedHealth's nH Predict AI denials1 · From the archive

October 2023

  1. Mon, Oct 30Biden signs the first whole-of-government AI executive order (EO 14110)1 · From the archive

August 2023

  1. Tue, Aug 1OWASP publishes the first Top 10 for LLM Applications1 · From the archive

March 2023

  1. Sat, Mar 25How Cigna's PxDx system let doctors reject claims in bulk without reading them1 · From the archive