Do You Know Where AI Is Putting Your Practice at Risk?

The Health Sector Coordinating Council’s (HSCC) new Third-Party AI Risk and Supply Chain Transparency Guide is one of the more important documents urgent care and occupational medicine leaders should have on their radar right now.

AI was everywhere at the recent Urgent Care Association conference. More products are building it in, and the whole conversation is becoming normalized fast.

This reaches well beyond a few obvious AI tools. It affects documentation, intake, coding, vendor-added features, data handling, workflow accountability, and the cybersecurity responsibilities that come with all of it.

What makes the HSCC guide especially useful is how timely and practical it is. It helps leadership think through decisions many groups have not fully caught up to yet, including how AI changes vendor risk and why documents like your BAA may need to be revisited.

It is a fairly dense document, especially for smaller leadership teams that need a practical place to start. So, I created a shorter checklist for urgent care and Occ Med leadership, designed to help you:

• identify where AI may already be in use
• understand which use cases deserve closer review
• ask better questions of vendors
• take a more serious first step toward managing AI and cybersecurity risk

You can access the original HSCC guide here.

You can access my simplified checklist here.

For smaller urgent care and occupational medicine groups, this is a chance to get ahead of a problem that is only going to get more common. The goal should be to choose these tools carefully before they become part of everyday operations without anyone really stopping to evaluate them.