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Duke Health describes an Algorithm-Based Clinical Decision Support oversight process that maintains an inventory of AI tools and assesses them for safety, equity and effectiveness. The governance work sits alongside the system's broader clinical data-science activity.
Why it matters in Durham
As AI becomes part of scheduling, diagnosis support and hospital operations, Durham patients need accountability for how a tool performs. Governance does not mean every model is perfect, but it creates a structure for asking about bias, monitoring and human supervision.
What Durham residents should watch
Patients can ask care teams how a clinical decision is made. The university's published governance description explains the institution's framework, not an endorsement of every technology vendor.
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