From requiring companies to disclose that chatbots are not human to restricting the technology’s use in treating students, these five states have passed laws or created agencies to address AI’s role in mental health.
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Salt Lake City-based Huntsman Mental Health Institute has published a framework designed to guide the ethical development and deployment of AI systems used in healthcare. The framework — Scalable Agile Framework for Execution in AI, or SAFE AI — was…
Marc Miller, CEO of King of Prussia-based Universal Health Services, said the for-profit health system has enhanced its acute care revenue cycle operations by deploying AI tools to improve documentation and streamline its claims appeals process. The system is focusing…
The National Academy of Medicine released a framework in May 2025 to guide the development and use of trustworthy, human-centered AI across healthcare, specifically telehealth and behavioral health settings. “An Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine: Essential…
The Substance Use Disorder Foundation is calling on state and federal stakeholders to develop national standards for ambient care, citing rapid adoption of AI tools in behavioral health. Ambient care is described as a healthcare model in which AI-enabled systems…
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A study published Jan. 27 in Mental Health Research found an AI model predicted substance use disorder defining behaviors with up to 83% accuracy and addiction severity with up to 84%. University of Cincinnati researchers Sumra Bari, PhD, the study’s…
Health systems nationwide are rapidly adopting AI in healthcare, with behavioral health seeing results such as reducing clinician burnout and creating tools for caregiver emotional support. Arjun Nagendran, PhD, and Scott Compton, PhD, researchers at Chicago-based Ann & Robert H.…
As AI chatbot use accelerates, behavioral health clinicians are reporting concrete high-risk cases tied to patient destabilization and even treating patients as if they have an addiction, The New York Times reported Jan. 26. More than 100 therapists and psychiatrists…
A total of 143 bills across all 50 states were found to affect mental health-related AI, but only 28 explicitly mentioned mental health. The remainder had indirect or substantial implications, and just 20 were enacted across 11 states as of…
Health systems are rapidly adopting AI in healthcare, and behavioral health leaders have taken note of what is — and isn’t — working. From preventing clinician burnout to creating tools for emotional support for caregivers, here are three systems seeing…