Module 7: Regulation, liability, and monitoring

Theme

Regulation, liability, and monitoring

Essential Question

Who is accountable when support systems fail?

Module Components

• Book prose: conceptual framing, domain scenario, methods, and failure modes

• Assignment: evidence-backed production of a specific artifact

• Slides: presentation sequence for seminar or lecture delivery

• Narration: spoken version of the slide flow

• Rubric: criteria for evaluating the module artifact

• Notebook: executable lab aligned with the module theme using synthetic encounter records with symptoms, contraindications, guideline triggers, and alert outcomes

Module Artifact

clinical decision support safety case with escalation, override, and monitoring requirements focused on regulation, liability, and monitoring: Draft an accountability and monitoring plan.

Professional Setting

Students work as if advising a clinical informatics committee evaluating decision support before adding it to a clinician workflow. Their work must be intelligible to clinician, informaticist, patient safety officer, and EHR analyst.

Use This Module in Order

1. Read the learning chapter.

2. Review the slide deck with the matching narration.

3. In Populi, open the private student-repository link for this course and enter modules/module-7.

4. Clone the repository once or open its Codespace/Colab copy; run lab.ipynb and complete exercise.ipynb there.

5. Self-check with the rubric, commit and push the work, then submit exactly what Populi requests.