Ask

Questions you can actually ask.

Say who you are and what is in front of you. You will get questions to take to a visit, a huddle, a pitch, or a kitchen table.

Who is asking?

What is in front of you?

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

We are about to put this in front of patients

Opening

What would we need to know before we let this rank, write, or watch a person in care?

Take these

  1. 01

    Who was this tested on, and do they look like the people who will use it?

  2. 02

    What must remain a human judgement even if our model is faster?

  3. 03

    If this fails, is it a nuisance, a delay, or an irreversible harm, and who is named?

  4. 04

    What can a patient or a clinician refuse, without the rest of care getting worse?

  5. 05

    Where does the data go, including audio and notes, and who is the controller?

If you want the specialist shelf

Same questions, denser rooms. Go when you are ready — not as a test of seriousness.

Health-specific guidance

Ethics and governance of AI for health — large multimodal models

World Health Organization

WHO's 2024 guidance on large multimodal models in health: consent, evidence, equity, and the duties that remain with clinicians and states.

The question is not 'is AI risky?' but 'what does care require of this tool?'

How to manage, not only name

NIST AI Risk Management Framework

U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology

A voluntary framework for putting AI risk into an organisation's ordinary risk practice. Widely referenced; not a law.

You are past 'what can go wrong' and need a cycle: govern, map, measure, manage.