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Health AI Definitions

Foundations and Scope • Clinical Systems • Governance, Evidence, and Infrastructure • Care Delivery and Operations

Plain-language explanations of the systems, terms, and categories shaping Health AI.

Definition groups

The library uses four practical groups to help readers understand scope, system roles, governance, evidence, and care delivery.

Foundations and Scope

Core concepts that define artificial intelligence, Health AI, Medical AI, Wellness AI, and the boundaries between related fields.

Clinical Systems

AI and machine learning used in or near clinical workflows, documentation, evidence review, monitoring, and care-facing systems.

Governance, Evidence, and Infrastructure

Evaluation, safety, governance, evidence, federated data, deployment, monitoring, accountability, and responsible system foundations.

Care Delivery and Operations

Systems supporting documentation, coordination, access, navigation, administration, workflow execution, and healthcare capacity.

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Foundations and Scope

What is Artificial Intelligence?

A practical explanation of AI systems, including models, data, pattern recognition, automation, and human oversight.

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Foundations and Scope

What is Health AI?

The broad category of AI used across health, wellness, clinical care, operations, research, infrastructure, and patient support.

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Foundations and Scope

What is Medical AI?

A practical explanation of AI used in medical contexts, including how it differs from broader Health AI.

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Foundations and Scope

What is Wellness AI?

AI used in wellness, prevention, lifestyle support, habit formation, fitness, sleep, nutrition, and non-clinical health contexts.

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Clinical Systems

What is Clinical AI?

AI used in or near clinical care settings, where outputs may support documentation, triage, monitoring, evidence review, or care workflows.

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Clinical Systems

What is Clinical Machine Learning?

Machine learning methods used in clinical contexts, including model development, validation, deployment, monitoring, and risk.

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Governance, Evidence, and Infrastructure

What is Health AI Evaluation?

How AI health systems are tested, reviewed, monitored, and assessed against their intended use, setting, claims, and risk.

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Governance, Evidence, and Infrastructure

What is Health AI Safety?

The boundaries, safeguards, oversight, escalation rules, and monitoring used to reduce harm in Health AI systems.

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Governance, Evidence, and Infrastructure

What is Health AI Governance?

The controls, oversight, documentation, validation, accountability, and monitoring needed for responsible Health AI systems.

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Governance, Evidence, and Infrastructure

What is Evidence AI?

AI systems that help retrieve, organize, summarize, compare, or evaluate evidence in health, medicine, research, and policy.

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Governance, Evidence, and Infrastructure

What is Federated Health Data?

Distributed health data access for privacy-preserving analytics, research, evidence retrieval, and AI infrastructure.

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Governance, Evidence, and Infrastructure

What is Health AI Infrastructure?

The data, models, systems, controls, monitoring, and deployment layers supporting responsible AI in health settings.

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Care Delivery and Operations

What is Operational AI in Healthcare?

AI used for healthcare operations, workflow support, access, administration, logistics, and system coordination.

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Care Delivery and Operations

What is Care Navigation AI?

AI systems that help people find information, understand possible next steps, locate services, or connect with human support.

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Care Delivery and Operations

What is Ambient Clinical Documentation?

AI-supported documentation systems that listen to, structure, summarize, or draft clinical notes from care encounters.

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