{"id":226260,"date":"2026-06-04T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/joint-release-legislation-to-establish-guardrails-for-ai-in-healthcare-signed-into-law\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:00:14","slug":"joint-release-legislation-to-establish-guardrails-for-ai-in-healthcare-signed-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/joint-release-legislation-to-establish-guardrails-for-ai-in-healthcare-signed-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"JOINT RELEASE: Legislation to Establish Guardrails for AI in Healthcare Signed Into Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cohousedems.com\/news\/joint-release%3A-legislation-to-establish-guardrails-for-ai-in-healthcare-signed-into-law\">JOINT RELEASE: Legislation to Establish Guardrails for AI in Healthcare Signed Into Law<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cohousedems.com\/news\/joint-release%3A-legislation-to-establish-guardrails-for-ai-in-healthcare-signed-into-law\">https:\/\/www.cohousedems.com\/news\/joint-release%3A-legislation-to-establish-guardrails-for-ai-in-healthcare-signed-into-law<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 15:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cohousedems.com\">www.cohousedems.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colorado has enacted legislation to safeguard patients&#8217; access to mental healthcare provided by licensed human professionals.<\/li>\n<li>The law emphasizes that AI-generated algorithms cannot replace the expertise of human healthcare professionals.<\/li>\n<li>The law prohibits the use of AI to independently provide therapy, ensuring clinical treatment and psychotherapy are administered by licensed providers.<\/li>\n<li>The law also prevents AI chatbots from being marketed to patients as equivalent to licensed psychotherapists or counselors and bars misleading claims about confidentiality safeguards.<\/li>\n<li>It allows licensed professionals to use AI for administrative purposes but under proper oversight.<\/li>\n<li>The legislation aims to protect patients from the dangerous practice of AI chatbots mistaken for legitimate therapy.<\/li>\n<li>The law includes disclosures on the use of AI for supplementary support, such as recording or transcribing meetings.<\/li>\n<li>Recent studies and lawsuits suggest the risks of AI chatbots, including inappropriate responses to mental health conditions and recommendations of such harmful actions as suicide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOINT RELEASE: Legislation to Establish Guardrails for AI in Healthcare Signed Into Law https:\/\/www.cohousedems.com\/news\/joint-release%3A-legislation-to-establish-guardrails-for-ai-in-healthcare-signed-into-law Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/49f53f_d1dd82f74e7f4f45ad5fc4fc71975bdd~mv2.png\/v1\/fill\/w_1300,h_900,al_c\/2025%20website%20thumbnails.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226262,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226260\/revisions\/226262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}