What are defensible AI decisions?
Defensible AI decisions are consequential AI and agent decisions in healthcare supported by governance and evidence infrastructure sufficient to prove what was authorized, what happened, and who was accountable. A decision is defensible when its record can survive examination, by a board, counsel, a carrier, or an auditor, as it existed at the moment of decision, without reconstruction.
“Defensible” does not mean guaranteed correct, risk-free, or a substitute for professional judgment; it means the basis, the authority, and the evidence can be shown.
Medigram's own definitions page states it precisely: “A decision is defensible when its record can survive examination, by a board, counsel, a carrier, or an auditor, as it existed at the moment of decision, without reconstruction.” The word points at the record, not at the outcome.
Medigram states the governance promise behind defensible decisions in four parts: Know what was authorized. Verify what happened. Preserve the evidence. Know who is accountable. A Governed Decision Record is the sealed, tamper-evident record produced at the moment a consequential AI-assisted decision is made, capturing what was decided, under what authority, on what evidence, by which system, and with which accountable person.
Its minimum fields are: decision; authorized remit; model or agent; institutional context; standards evaluated; verification state; evidence provenance; accountable authority; timestamp; seal.
Every term above is defined once, at Medigram's definitions page, and quoted verbatim wherever it appears. The independent verification behind these claims is documented in full on the evidence page.
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