In May 2025 Healthcare Innovation interviewed Shawn Griffin, M.D., president and CEO of URAC, about the development of an AI accreditation program. Now the accreditation organization has announced the first organizations to earn its Health Care Artificial Intelligence Accreditation.

Guidehealth, RediMinds and SandsRx are the first organizations to win accreditation in the program, which evaluates governance, transparency, risk management and ongoing oversight.

Guidehealth earned the accreditation as both an AI developer and user for its AI-enabled solutions supporting value-based care and population health. The company uses AI to help health plans and health systems connect patients with care programs and support nurses in delivering more effective care management.

“As AI becomes more embedded in healthcare, organizations must be able to demonstrate that these tools are governed with the same rigor as other critical aspects of care,” said Michael Gleeson, chief growth and technology officer at Guidehealth, in a statement. “URAC’s accreditation ensures that our approach prioritizes strong oversight, patient safety and responsible implementation.”

RediMinds, a technology and AI consulting firm specializing in healthcare, earned the accreditation as both an AI developer and user for the technologies supporting its Center for Independent Dispute Resolution.

SandsRx, a specialty pharmacy, earned the accreditation for its use of AI to improve operational efficiency and scale patient services while maintaining safeguards for patient safety and privacy.

In our May 2025 interview, Griffin explained why an AI accreditation is important now: “I've seen organizations say they have thousands of uses for AI in the organization. But what are the guard rails? It's moving so quickly that you need to have some guard rails before this gets too far, before this moves too fast,” he said. “We think that there's a place for us as a trusted, independent organization to come in with standards and say, what are the best practices around liability, oversight, patient consent, all of those sort of things, and that's what we're working on here.”

He added that an advisory committee that helped to develop the standards included experts from Verily, AHIP, Northwell Health, Aidoc, Pfizer, and other organizations.