Module v1.0 · Required
Govern and Map a Healthcare AI Use Case
A practical guide to defining purpose, roles, boundaries, data, affected people, and operational AI risks.
Apply the Govern and Map functions to a bounded healthcare-operations use case and identify where human authority must remain explicit.
Purpose, authority, and accountable roles
Make the intended benefit and the decision boundary explicit.
Start with a specific operational purpose: for example, drafting a scheduling reminder, organizing an internal knowledge response, or identifying missing fields in a fictional workflow record. State what the system may assist with and what it may not decide. A useful governance record names the business owner, operational reviewer, privacy and security partners, affected people, escalation owner, and the person who can pause or retire the use case.
NIST's Govern function is not a one-time approval. It creates the policies, roles, resources, and accountability that remain in place as the use case changes.
- The purpose and expected benefit are written in plain language
- Prohibited uses and decision boundaries are visible
- A named owner and accountable reviewer are assigned
- Affected people and escalation contacts are identified
- A pause, rollback, or retirement authority exists