How InferTrust™ provides cryptographic evidence that supports malpractice defense when AI-assisted clinical decisions are challenged in litigation.
When a malpractice claim involves an AI-assisted clinical decision, the fundamental question is: what did the AI produce, and how was it used? Without verifiable records, health systems are forced to rely on application logs that opposing counsel can challenge as incomplete, modified, or unreliable.
InferTrust™ (Patent Pending) decision records provide cryptographic proof of the exact model version active at the time, the specific clinical policy and threshold configuration, the AI output including confidence score and recommended action, the timestamp of the inference sealed with device-bound keys, and the chain of subsequent actions (clinician review, escalation, override). Each of these elements is independently verifiable by opposing counsel, courts, or expert witnesses.
During litigation discovery, the integrity of evidence is paramount. InferTrust™'s hash chain construction means any modification to a decision record, whether alteration, deletion, or reordering, breaks the cryptographic chain and is mathematically detectable. This provides a level of evidence integrity that traditional application logs cannot match.
InferTrust™ records can demonstrate that the health system had appropriate AI governance in place: defined confidence thresholds, human oversight requirements, and policy-bound decision workflows. This evidence of systematic governance can support the defense argument that the organization met the standard of care in its use of AI-assisted clinical tools.