HB1002 Summary

• Requires hospitals and the University of Illinois Hospital to obtain certification from the Department of Public Health and Department of Innovation and Technology before using any diagnostic algorithm for patient diagnosis.

• Mandates that diagnostic algorithms must be demonstrated to achieve equal or greater accuracy than other available diagnostic methods before hospital use.

• Prohibits hospitals from using a diagnostic algorithm as the sole diagnostic method available to patients.

• Grants patients the right to be informed when a diagnostic algorithm will be used for their diagnosis.

• Requires patients to receive the option of diagnosis without an algorithm and must provide informed consent before any diagnostic algorithm is used.