Premier Responds to Administration’s RFI on AI in Healthcare

Premier submitted comments to the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on the request for information (RFI) on AI adoption in clinical care. Premier has consistently advocated for a responsible, innovation-friendly and transparent regulatory framework for AI in healthcare, aligning with our longstanding commitment to improving patient outcomes and supporting clinicians through technology. In its comments, Premier called for:

• The harmonization of regulatory requirements across HHS to reduce duplicative or conflicting regulatory burden;
• Technical assistance and guidance to help private sector organizations understand and evaluate cybersecurity and privacy risks in acquiring and deploying AI technologies;
• Coordination across HHS to incorporate hospital cybersecurity needs into the hospital preparedness program funding formula;
• Working with CMS to reduce regulatory barriers to AI and software coverage and financing;
• Exploring opportunities for transparency labeling of AI technology in healthcare, which should include outcomes-focused metrics such as accuracy, false positives, inference risks and recommended use/applications;
• Embedding supply chain identifiers in ONC certification criteria and requirements for application programming interfaces (APIs);
• Publishing cross-agency guidance endorsing open standards for supply chain data pipelines for AI tools; and
• Coordination across HHS — particularly with the FDA — to reinforce the Global Trade Identification Number (GTIN) as the canonical product key in provider systems and item masters, allowing AI agents to link key information to provide timely, clinically-relevant insights.