Introduction

Purpose and Scope

This Responsible AI content for Note Summarization - Patient Discharge Summary aligns to the CHAI Responsible AI Guide (RAIG) (formerly known as, Assurance Standards Guide) by creating a set of best practice guidance applicable for developers and implementers of generative AI note summarization - patient discharge summary solutions used in healthcare organizations. This Responsible AI content includes:

  1. Testing and Evaluation (T&E) Framework: a consensus-defined set of methods, metrics, and benchmarks for developers and implementers to more concretely evaluate the responsible use of generative AI solutions for note summarization - patient discharge summary. The T&E Framework varies based on use case type.

Individuals involved in the process to develop, deploy, and monitor an AI-enabled note summarization - patient discharge summary solution may leverage the content within this consensus-driven, member-driven Responsible AI content to evaluate their solution for Responsible AI guidance. Teams using this Responsible AI content should identify the AI lifecycle stage, as described in CHAI’s RAIG, that is most applicable to their organizational scenario. They should then work with all relevant teams and stakeholders to align and leverage the methods, metrics, measures, and benchmarks defined in the Testing & Evaluation Framework to evaluate and assess the responsible use of AI.

Audience

This Responsible AI content is for developers and implementers of note summarization - patient discharge summary AI solutions used in healthcare organizations:

  • Developers: individuals involved in the software development process, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, and maintenance of software applications (derived from IEEE, 12207:2017)

  • Implementers: individuals responsible for the procurement, deployment, and/or overall realization of a system or component in accordance with a specified design (derived from IEEE 829 and IEEE 730)

  • Healthcare organizations: “a health care organization is a purposefully designed, structured social system developed for the delivery of health care services by specialized workforces to defined communities, populations, or markets.”

Use Case Description

Note summarization - patient discharge summary: the patient discharge summary use case refers to clinical documentation that summarizes the course of a patient’s stay at a medical facility. This is commonly used to support communication related to transitions of care, such as from the hospital to either home or to a skilled nursing facility. The patient discharge summary is a specific type of document where a patient’s hospital course is summarized using notes generated during the hospital stay and is part of the official medical record. The primary consumer of the patient discharge summary is the provider, and the secondary consumer is the patient.