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A health system is not a market first. It is people who will live with what you ship. Translation is fitting the tool to that place.
For I am building or bringing a tool into care
A way to begin
If this goes well, who is in a position to say so? If it goes badly, who can be named?
What are we asking a nurse or a doctor to stop doing, not only to start?
What evidence would make this hospital stop the pilot?
Whose workflow did we watch, and for how long, before we designed this?
What do we do when the tool works worse for some patients than others?
Triage algorithm bias
Triage algorithm bias occurs when an automated urgency score gives some groups lower priority than their medical needs justify.
Automation bias in clinical decisions
Clinical automation bias occurs when a health professional gives an automated suggestion more weight than the patient's evidence warrants.
Dermatology skin-tone bias
Skin-tone bias in dermatology AI means a system identifies skin disease less accurately on some skin tones than on others.
These resources offer more detail. Each title opens the original source in a new tab.
Health-specific guidance
World Health Organization
WHO guidance on the ethics and governance of large multimodal models in health.
Use this when considering generative AI in a health or care setting.
How to manage, not only name
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
A voluntary framework for organizing work to identify, assess, and manage AI risks.
Use this when your organization needs a process for managing AI risk.
A law with high-risk lists
European Union
An external overview of the EU AI Act and its approach to different uses of AI.
Use this for orientation, and consult the original legal text to establish requirements.