AI Certification Program, Best-Practices Tools Coming This Fall

The Joint Commission and the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) are partnering to co-develop a suite of AI resources. These include playbooks, tools and a new certification program rooted in The Joint Commission’s platform for evidence-based standards and CHAI’s consensus-based best practices for health AI.

AI’s integration and potential to improve patient care is enormous — but only if done right, noted Jonathan B. Perlin, president and CEO of The Joint Commission, in a statement announcing the partnership. “By working with CHAI, we are creating a road map and offering guidance for health care organizations so they can harness this technology in ways that not only support safety but engender trust among stakeholders,” he added.

“The integration of AI into health care presents both significant opportunities and complex challenges. This effort between The Joint Commission and the Coalition for Health AI represents a thoughtful approach to navigating how to best deploy and implement these emerging technologies,” said Michael Pfeffer, M.D., chief information and digital officer, Stanford Health Care. “This partnership, the guidance, tools and certification it aims to provide will help accelerate innovation, mitigate risk and enable health care organizations to fully leverage AI’s potential to improve patient outcomes and clinician workflows.”

The organizations expect the first guidance to be issued this fall, with AI certification to follow.