AI & Health: Who Controls The Cure?—PART 4
January 15, 2026
3:23 am
Regulating the Invisible
Why Laws, Standards, and Oversight Fail Against Algorithmic Medicine.
The Regulatory Illusion
Regulation is supposed to make power visible. In healthcare, it has historically done so by demanding documentation, traceability, and accountability, clinical trials, post-market surveillance, malpractice law, and professional licensure. Artificial intelligence, however, has exposed the limits of this regulatory imagination. Across jurisdictions, AI systems now operate inside hospitals and health agencies with profound clinical influence but only partial legal clarity. They are regulated in fragments, audited intermittently, and governed largely by frameworks that assume transparency where none exists.
Morley et al. (2022) …
