Where does the AI run?

How we graded the direction

• Data went to the AI. The item describes patient data sent to, processed by, or used by an AI, tool, app, vendor, model or partner outside the point of care: scribes that record visits, data pasted into chat tools, data shared with an AI partner, models trained on patient or population data.
• AI came to the data. The item describes the AI running where the data lives, with only interpretation leaving. One item in the file meets this: Fiji, where the AI is built into the X-ray machine.
• Not stated. Rules, strategies, plans, announcements, authorisations, and deployments that never say where the data goes. Most of the file. That silence is itself a finding: our case reporting rarely records the fact that decides the case, so we now require it.

We found every candidate with a word net over the news items (AI and its compounds, artificial intelligence, machine learning, algorithm; every match read) and excluded two "health aid" items an early net caught by accident. Planned and prospective flows count where the item describes the flow. The full method with the exact net ships in the repo as analysis/mechanism/METHOD.md. This question is a candidate for the next version of our scoring rules; it changes no score in this one.