This bill, effective immediately, regulates AI use by registered nurses in Illinois, allowing exceptions for nonclinical activity and requiring training on AI failure modes. It also allows the Department to investigate any health care entity employing registered professional nurses.
If you employ registered nurses using AI in patient care, you must maintain validation records and provide training or face penalties.
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SB 3702, effective immediately, introduces regulations for registered nurses in Illinois regarding the use of artificial intelligence in patient care. It mandates transparency, patient notice, confidentiality protections, access to AI data inputs, and prohibits staffing, triage, admission, discharge, or transfer decisions solely based on AI. The bill also amends the grounds for discipline to include violations of the AI provisions and requires training on known AI failure modes. The Department can investigate any health care entity employing registered professional nurses.
Key Provisions
- Prohibits substituting AI for nursing services.
- Requires health care entities to maintain validation and bias monitoring records for AI systems and make them available to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation upon request.
- Mandates training for registered nurses on AI use, limitations, and known failure modes.
- Ensures nurses have access to data inputs and key factors of AI recommendations.
- Prohibits decisions solely based on AI for staffing, triage, admission, discharge, or transfer.
- Requires patient notice and transparency regarding AI use.
- Includes confidentiality protections with exceptions for nonclinical activity.
- Allows the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to investigate any health care entity employing registered professional nurses.
- Amends the grounds for discipline to include violations of the AI provisions by registered professional nurses.
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Bill Sponsors
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Graciela Guzmán | Primary |
Compliance Checklist
Who: Health care entities employing registered nurses.
Penalty: Potential disciplinary actions against registered nurses.
Who: Health care entities employing registered nurses.
Penalty: Potential disciplinary actions against registered nurses.
Who: Health care entities employing registered nurses.
Penalty: Potential disciplinary actions against registered nurses.
Who: Health care entities employing registered nurses.
Penalty: Potential disciplinary actions against registered nurses.
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