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THE CLINIC
SECTION 12
ISSUE 001
OBSERVEDinstitutionnowconfidence / high
Clinical AI Needs a Permanent Test Network
A medical model should not be trusted forever because it passed once. Hospitals need a permanent validation network running silent prospective tests, publishing subgroup and workflow effects, and sharing drift signals through common protocols. The network’s job is to catch the distance between a regulatory moment and a changing clinical reality.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
FDA’s authorized-device list is expanding and explicitly incomplete; the 2026 medicine index highlights the gap between clinical AI growth and robust real-world evaluation.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices
official regulatory database / dated Live source · verified 2026-07-09 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02AI Index Report 2026 — Medicine
independent research report / dated 2026 / retrieved 2026-07-09