Newsom signs healthcare-related AI bills

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has signed into law a pair of healthcare artificial intelligence bills that require payers using AI tools in coverage decisions to comply with new guardrails and regulate generative AI communications between providers and patients, Inside Health Policy reported.

With the two new health AI laws, California joins Utah and Colorado as states that have passed major legislation affecting healthcare stakeholders’ use of AI tools this year.

Newsom signed the Physicians Make Decisions Act (SB...