People often hear “AI” and assume a robot performed surgery. In real cases, the concern is usually more nuanced. In and around the College Park area, patients may be treated at hospitals, outpatient centers, and specialty clinics that use technology for:
- Clinical documentation support (generated summaries, templated notes, transcription assistance)
- Imaging workflow tools (flagging findings, preliminary reads, or automated measurements)
- Decision-support systems (risk scoring, alerts, protocol recommendations)
- Surgical planning or navigation aids (outputs that require clinician verification)
When harm occurs, the key question becomes whether the clinical team appropriately supervised and verified any AI-influenced outputs—and whether the response to changing facts matched the expected standard of care.


