Resources
Digital Medicine Society: Implementing AI in Healthcare
In this four-part video series, Dr. Char addresses ethical and systemic challenges in deploying AI in clinical settings, focusing on workflow barriers, value collisions, research ethics, and recurring system-level issues. DiME released a Playbook that guides healthcare organizations through the ethical, technical, and organizational steps needed to implement AI responsibly and equitably. Read more here.
Beyond accuracy: Stanford’s frontier trial of autonomous AI confronts stark realities of equity, bias, and care bottlenecks
What should patients be told about health systems' use of AI tools?
Drawing on interviews with patients and other stakeholders, HEAL-AI's directors offer recommendations in JAMA about how health systems should answer the question: ask, tell, or neither?
Drs. Char and Mello provide an overview of Stanford's approach to ethical assessment for AI tools and share key learnings to date. Presented at the Coalition for Health AI's (CHAI's) Leadership Summit in June 2025.
Ethics Assessment Reports
Illustrative examples of our ethics reports are provided here. You are welcome to download and use them. We will continue to add to this library over time.
HeartRead
A Predictive Algorithm to Screen For Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
NoteBuddy
A Large Language Model to Generate Nursing Notes
AuthorizeMe
A Generative AI Tool to Help Secure Insurance Prior Authorizations
RadiRead
A Tool to Help Radiologists Generate Imaging Reports
Copilot
An Ambient Scribe Tool to Generate Summary Notes on Clinic Visits
Payment Probability and Denial Appeal Drafter
Large Language Models to Predict the Likelihood of Successfully Challenging an Insurance Denial and Drafting Letters for Denied Claims
LabAlert
An AI Tool to Help Reduce Low-Value Lab Tests
SendOff
An Algorithm for Predicting Risk of Hospital Readmission
Other Ethics Assessment Materials
Tools for gathering and analyzing stakeholders’ views
- “What to Expect” document for teams submitting proposed use cases for ethical assessment
- Template for thematic content analysis of interview and focus group transcripts
- Template for meetings with Expert Oversight Panel
- Tracking sheet for recording progress of stakeholder interviews and patient focus group
- *Coming soon!* Detailed protocol for arranging and conducting data collection
- *Coming soon!* Project manager’s step-by-step tracking sheet for entire ethics assessment process
- *Coming soon!* Step-by-step summary of entire ethics assessment process
- *Coming soon!* Patient focus group moderator’s guide (template, for customization for specific use cases)
- *Coming soon!* Interview guide for tool developers (template, for customization for specific use cases)
- *Coming soon!* Interview guide for prospective tool users (template, for customization for specific use cases)
Tools for process improvement