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THE CLINIC

SECTION 12

ISSUE 001

INFERENCEprovocationnowconfidence / medium

Budget Every Clinical Interruption

Provocation: every AI alert should spend from a finite interruption budget. A warning earns clinician attention only when calibrated risk and actionability clear a predefined threshold; low-value systems lose the privilege to interrupt. Patient benefit, not alert volume, becomes the scarce resource the model must optimize.

Why this idea is here

What the evidence establishes.

The AI Index documents clinical AI adoption and evidence gaps; FDA maintains an index of digital-health guidance that includes change-control and lifecycle guidance.

Source ledger

Read the sources.

  1. S01
    AI Index Report 2026 — Medicine

    independent research report / dated 2026 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  2. S02
    Guidances with Digital Health Content

    official regulatory guidance index / dated Live source · verified 2026-07-09 / retrieved 2026-07-09

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