Do I need patient consent to use AI in a clinical encounter?
It depends on jurisdiction and use: some states (e.g. California's AB 3030 for certain generative-AI patient communications) require disclosure, and professional-ethics norms increasingly favour transparency, while many uses of AI as a clinician aid do not…
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It depends on jurisdiction and use: some states (e.g. California's AB 3030 for certain generative-AI patient communications) require disclosure, and professional-ethics norms increasingly favour transparency, while many uses of AI as a clinician aid do not trigger a specific consent statute. Check your state's law. Planisphere measures how the clinical AI behaves; it does not determine your consent obligations, which are a legal and state-specific matter.
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