Nelson and Merkin launch HealthcareCompliance.ai for AI governance in healthcare

Healthcare attorneys Harry Nelson and Nicholas Merkin have launched HealthcareCompliance.ai, a governance platform for AI in healthcare built around the OIG’s compliance framework. The site combines regulatory updates, templates and advisory services as hospitals and vendors race ahead of oversight.

Why it matters: - Healthcare organizations are adopting AI faster than they are building controls around it. - The new platform is designed to help providers, vendors, payers and investors manage regulatory, clinical and reimbursement risk tied to AI use. - The launch comes as federal and state rules on AI in healthcare are moving quickly.

What happened: - Harry Nelson and Nicholas Merkin launched HealthcareCompliance.ai, a platform focused on governing artificial intelligence in healthcare. - The site is a companion to their book, Digital Diagnosis: The AI Revolution in Healthcare and the Future of Regulation. - The platform is aimed at health systems, physician groups, behavioral health providers, legal and compliance teams, AI and digital health companies, and investors and boards. - Nelson and Merkin will use the site for advisory services, regulatory updates, tools and templates, speaking, and insights.

The details: - HealthcareCompliance.ai adapts the HHS Office of Inspector General’s Seven Elements of an Effective Compliance Program to AI-specific risk. - The platform focuses on AI governance policies, procurement and vendor oversight, FDA oversight of AI-enabled medical devices and clinical decision support, HIPAA and data governance, cybersecurity, algorithmic bias and nondiscrimination, liability and risk allocation, and AI-driven reimbursement and fraud risk. - The site includes pages for the book, tools and templates, advisory services, speaking and insights. - Visitors can join the waitlist for the AI Compliance Starter Kit. - The starter kit includes an AI Governance Policy Template, a Pre-Deployment Risk Checklist, AI Vendor Contract Red Flags, and a Monitoring Dashboard Framework. - Planned additions include OIG-aligned policy templates, risk assessment templates, self-assessment tools, and a periodic Healthcare AI Compliance Update. - Nelson and Merkin advise healthcare organizations, law firms and investors on AI governance strategy, regulatory risk assessment, litigation and expert witness matters, and executive and board education. - Nelson chairs the healthcare practice at Leech Tishman and is an adjunct assistant clinical professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. - Merkin has served for more than two decades as a fractional and interim chief compliance officer for health systems, physician groups, behavioral health providers, digital health companies and investors. - HealthcareCompliance.ai complements HarryNelson.com, which launched in July 2026 as Nelson’s hub for commentary, writing, speaking and expert witness work.

Between the lines: - The platform is built around the idea that AI changes how decisions are made, how risk is assessed and how responsibility is assigned. - Nelson and Merkin argue that a human reviewer alone does not prove accountability if the organization cannot explain what information was reviewed, how the AI output was used and why the decision was made. - The book points to automation bias as a key problem: clinicians may trust AI outputs more when the tools are usually right, even when occasional errors carry outsized consequences. - The site also targets reimbursement risk, where AI can affect documentation, coding, claims adjudication and prior authorization decisions. - The platform’s analysis treats explainability in practice as a compliance issue, not just a technical one.

What's next: - HealthcareCompliance.ai will expand with OIG-aligned templates, risk assessment tools, self-assessment materials and regular compliance updates. - The AI Compliance Starter Kit waitlist is open now. - Nelson and Merkin are positioning the platform as an ongoing resource for organizations trying to document oversight before AI-related problems arise.

The bottom line: - The launch gives healthcare organizations a compliance playbook for AI at a time when oversight rules are still catching up to adoption.