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Two Years of Clean Monitoring Data. Not One Page of It Had Ever Reached the Board.

Two Years of Clean Monitoring Data. Not One Page of It Had Ever Reached the Board.

by Touch Stone Publishers | Oct 6, 2026

The audit committee heard the sentence twice a year: “AI monitoring is in place.” It was true. Drift detection ran every week. An on-call rotation answered incidents inside a day. A platform team checked the third-party model vendor’s status page...
The Model Passed Every Audit. The Workflow Around It Was Not the One the Board Approved.

The Model Passed Every Audit. The Workflow Around It Was Not the One the Board Approved.

by Touch Stone Publishers | Sep 21, 2026

A regional health system approves an AI-assisted triage tool for its telehealth intake line, with one standing condition: every high-acuity case flagged by the system gets a licensed nurse’s review before a callback disposition is finalized. Eighteen months...
The Vendor Capped Its Liability at Twelve Months of Fees. Nobody Priced the Rest.

The Vendor Capped Its Liability at Twelve Months of Fees. Nobody Priced the Rest.

by Touch Stone Publishers | Sep 14, 2026

Somewhere in every AI vendor contract that touches a regulated workflow sits a limitation-of-liability clause capping what the vendor will ever pay at the fees the company paid in the preceding twelve months. For a clinical documentation assistant, a diagnostic...
A Risk Named in General Is a Risk No One Is Watching

A Risk Named in General Is a Risk No One Is Watching

by Touch Stone Publishers | Sep 11, 2026

The board that lists “AI risk” as one line among two dozen on its enterprise risk register has not built oversight. It has built a sentence. When an AI system touching a regulated asset fails, the question put to the directors will not be whether AI...
The AI Claim Was True in March. Nobody Checked If It Still Is.

The AI Claim Was True in March. Nobody Checked If It Still Is.

by Touch Stone Publishers | Aug 31, 2026

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