Does Rhode Island Use of Artificial Intelligence by Healthcare Providers Notification Act (S 2570) require Transparency & Disclosure?

Rhode Island • enforcing

Yes — 1 provision

Requirements at a glance

This regulation imposes 2 specific requirements for Transparency & Disclosure across 1 provision:

AI Visit Documentation Notice and Review #

Obligation:
Transparency
enforcing
Effective:
Jun 22, 2026
Risk tier:
sector-specific
Scope:
All healthcare providers and healthcare facilities that employ AI to document in-person or telehealth visits. "Healthcare provider" covers physicians, physician assistants, dentists, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, nursing assistants, and any other healthcare professional licensed by the director of the department of health; "healthcare facility" takes the meaning in § 23-17-2. "Artificial intelligence" is defined expansively as any technology that can simulate human intelligence, including natural language processing, training language models, RLHF, and machine learning systems (§ 23-108-2)
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The duty runs to private healthcare providers and the facilities that employ them, not to a state agency — which is what puts it in scope here rather than treating it as a licensing rule, and it lands squarely on the ambient-scribe vendors selling into those private practices: the practice cannot lawfully deploy a scribe without a patient notification path and a per-visit review-and-attest step built into the workflow, with no sampling allowance and no materiality threshold. The statute's title advertises only notification; the review duty is the operative half and is easy to miss. Note the narrowing phrase "for that sole purpose" — the duty as drafted attaches to documentation use, and the Act says nothing about AI used for diagnosis or triage. The operative chapter is a single sentence creating these two linked duties, so they are modelled as one provision rather than two.

Requirements

RequirementDetails
Patient notificationHealthcare providers and healthcare facilities that employ AI to document in-person or telehealth visits must notify patients of the use of AI for that sole purpose (§ 23-108-3)
Review after each visitThe same providers and facilities must review the AI-generated documentation for accuracy after the visit (§ 23-108-3)

Penalties

ViolationFine
Not specifiedThe chapter establishes no fine schedule, private right of action, or named enforcement authority. Exposure runs through Department of Health professional licensure, healthcare-facility licensing under Title 23, and ordinary medical-records liability
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