Write an AI-use policy for your practice
My staff already use AI tools, and nothing in writing says what is allowed and what is not.
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Source check: 2026-11-11 · Physician review: not yet recorded
The workflow
- Download the model AI policy from the American Medical Association's STEPS Forward Governance for Augmented Intelligence toolkit.
- List your allowed uses (for example, drafts of marketing materials or research summaries) and banned uses (for example, entering patient health information into public AI tools).
- State how long AI-generated information and patient visit recordings are kept, and when clinicians and patients are told AI is in use.
- Check the draft against the Association's 10-item minimum list, which also covers definitions, risks, how new AI tools get approved, and who oversees their use.
- Add the AI rules to your yearly staff training.
- Point to the new policy from your existing data-security, informed-consent and vendor-contracting policies.
Tools and cost
USD unless stated otherwise. Billing periods and eligibility matter. A tool listed here was not necessarily tested in the cited study.
Read the public article
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What the evidence supports
AMA guidance describes governance and the elements of an organizational AI policy, including permitted uses, privacy, accountability, monitoring and training. It does not measure the benefit of adopting a policy.
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Where it goes wrong
The toolkit is built for health systems, so a small practice has to trim it, and it does not replace checking the state and federal laws on AI use that the American Medical Association says to watch.