Policy Brief: Policy Perspectives on Equitable Health AI

Reimagining Health Care Through AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping every aspect of the health care system. It has the potential to accelerate clinical innovation, improve diagnosis, expand access, reduce clinician burden, and personalize care in ways that can transform lives. Yet without intentional design and clear accountability, AI also has the capacity to deepen longstanding racial and economic disparities in health outcomes and access to care.

In this policy brief, we refine those findings into four areas of focus that can guide federal, state, and local policy decisions:

• Equity in health AI development;
• Governance and accountability in AI development;
• Patients and communities in an AI-driven health system; and
• A diverse, future-ready health workforce.

These are not exhaustive solutions. They are policy perspectives rooted in the white paper and informed by the lived realities of the communities most affected by inequity in health outcomes. They reflect our commitment to ensuring that health AI strengthens, rather than stratifies, the American health care system.