HHS Is Funding Agentic AI in Clinical Care With $1.5M in LEAP Awards to MedStar and Regenstrief. The Bigger Challenge Is Who Controls the Agent: Patient, EHR Vendor, Hospital, Payer, AI Lab

The federal government just put $1.5M behind a clinical AI agent that answers to the patient, not the hospital, not the EHR vendor, not the payer. Here is why that design choice matters.

ONC’s LEAP program has made 20 awards since 2018. Its 2018 award for bulk Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources data export became a federal certification requireme…