In many modern care settings across Michigan, patients encounter workflows that rely on automation—risk scoring, triage routing, documentation assistance, decision-support prompts, and automated interpretation of certain tests.
That doesn’t mean the “machine caused it,” and it also doesn’t mean the clinician is off the hook. In a potential AI misdiagnosis scenario, the legal question is typically whether the care team met the Michigan standard of care for verifying information, escalating concerns, and documenting clinical reasoning.
Common Madison Heights–area situations we investigate include:
- Automated triage that routed symptoms too low-risk, delaying escalation
- Imaging or lab outputs that were recorded without prompt follow-up
- Software-generated flags that were ignored instead of reviewed clinically
- Documentation assistance that unintentionally omitted key symptoms or context


