OIG Report: VA's Aggressive Deployment of AI in the Clinical Field Considered 'Risky'

VA's Office of the Inspector General found the agency is deploying AI tools like GPT and Copilot Chat in clinical care without proper safety classification or adverse-event tracking, despite OMB guidance requiring high-impact healthcare AI to include risk management practices. The report identified 79 clinical-use prompts across two unclassified tools and found no mechanism to tag AI-generated documentation in the patient safety system.

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