Brooks senior develops national index tracking AI healthcare policy
Brooks senior develops national index tracking AI healthcare policy
Publish Date: 2026-06-01 09:37:00
Source Domain: news.cornell.edu
As artificial intelligence rapidly enters healthcare, policymakers and health systems are struggling to keep pace with the implications for how the technology should be governed to ensure patient safety, provider accountability and overall equity.
To help address that gap, Brooks senior Will Moss ‘26 developed the Health and AI Policy Index (HAPI), a public database tracking healthcare AI legislation and governance efforts across a broad spectrum of regulatory frameworks.
Using HAPI, Moss studied the emerging landscape of healthcare AI governance in the United States in a work recently published in npj Digital Medicine.
“HAPI was designed to make healthcare AI governance more accessible and understandable,” Moss said. “Right now, policymakers, researchers, and health systems are all trying to navigate a rapidly changing regulatory environment. I wanted to create a centralized resource that helps people follow what’s happening across states in real time.”
The project catalogs legislation, executive actions, regulatory guidance, and voluntary frameworks related to artificial intelligence in healthcare across state, federal, and international jurisdictions.
“Because there is no single comprehensive framework governing healthcare AI, stakeholders must navigate a complex patchwork of policies emerging from a wide range of regulators and institutions,” Moss said. “HAPI was designed to bring those developments together in one accessible place.”
The interactive platform allows users to explore policies by jurisdiction, stakeholder group and impact level, while also providing summaries, implementation considerations and trend analyses.
The project drew on Moss’s work in AI policy and governance at the Windreich Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health at Mount Sinai, where he gained firsthand exposure to how health AI is evaluated, implemented, and governed within healthcare systems. His previous experience with internships in federal and…
