Choose your role and situation to find questions for a real conversation.
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Choose your role, then choose a situation. You will see prepared questions you can copy and take to a visit, a team meeting, or a conversation at home.
You should not need a degree to ask what is sitting in the exam room with you.
For I am a patient, or I care for someone who is
A way to begin
What was used, what did it decide, and what can I still question?
Was a tool used in my notes, my images, or my risk score — and may I see what it said?
Can I decline next time without the quality of my care changing?
Who checks the output before it goes in my record?
If it is wrong, how do I correct it, and does the correction travel?
AI documentation "ambient scribes"
Ambient-scribe risk arises when a tool listening to a clinical conversation creates an inaccurate record or captures and uses speech in ways the patient did not understand.
Diagnostic errors
Diagnostic error happens when AI suggests the wrong explanation for a person's symptoms or fails to identify an illness that is present.
Triage algorithm bias
Triage algorithm bias occurs when an automated urgency score gives some groups lower priority than their medical needs justify.
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.