Active Academic Validation

The governance layer for clinical AI decisions

When clinicians work alongside AI, the medical record goes silent on the most critical part: how the decision was actually made. Evidify captures the full decision trajectory — independent judgment, AI disclosure, comprehension verification, and documented override reasoning — in a tamper-evident, publication-grade evidence package.

PATENT PENDING ACADEMIC VALIDATION ACTIVE AMIA 2026 SUBMITTED 18/18 E2E TESTS PASSING
Clinical AI creates decisions.
Nobody documents them.
Over 950 FDA-cleared AI/ML-enabled medical devices are in clinical use. When an adverse outcome involves AI, the medical record cannot reconstruct what happened.

The Silent Record

When a radiologist reads a study with AI assistance, the medical record does not capture whether they saw the AI output, agreed with it, overrode it, or why. The decision sequence is invisible.

The Legal Double Bind

Clinicians face potential liability for following an incorrect AI recommendation and for overriding a correct one. Structured documentation is the only available defense for either scenario. No standard exists.

The Regulatory Gap

The EU AI Act mandates human oversight documentation for high-risk AI systems by August 2026. ACR has called for payment structures recognizing AI review workload. No compliance-ready documentation standard exists.

Gate-enforced sequential disclosure
Evidify instruments the clinician-AI interaction as a structured, cryptographically verifiable record. Each decision phase is enforced by the platform, not by policy.
1

Independent Assessment First

The clinician's diagnostic impression is captured and cryptographically locked before any AI output is revealed. This proves clinical judgment preceded AI influence — not by policy, but by architecture.

SHA-256 hash chain lock · No AI in DOM before lock · Provable gate enforcement
2

Controlled AI Disclosure with Comprehension Gating

The AI recommendation appears through a gate-enforced protocol. False discovery rate and false omission rate are disclosed, and the reader must demonstrate calibrated comprehension of the AI's operational error characteristics before proceeding.

FDR/FOR disclosure · Calibrated confidence assessment · Numeric error rate estimation
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Documented Override or Agreement

When the clinician's final decision differs from the AI, structured reason codes and free-text rationale create a defensible record of deliberate clinical reasoning. Agreement is documented with equal rigor.

Structured reason codes · Override direction tracking · Automation bias pattern classification
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Tamper-Evident Evidence Package

Every session produces a self-contained export with hash-chained audit trail, decision trajectories, double bind records, data quality scoring, iMRMC-compatible analysis files, and RFC 3161 trusted timestamps from an independent timestamping authority.

28-file evidence package · RFC 3161 notarization · Self-contained verifier
Publication-grade data from every session
Each participant session produces a 28-file evidence package with research-grade behavioral data, automatic bias classification, and regulatory compliance mapping.
RESEARCH

Decision Trajectories

Each case is automatically classified into outcome types (maintained, capitulated, partial shift, contrary shift) and automation bias patterns (deliberate capitulation, partial anchoring, confident resistance). Millisecond-resolution phase timing included.

Capitulation rate, anchoring rate, and resistance rate computed automatically
LEGAL

Double Bind Records

Four-pillar accountability framework per case: independent judgment documented, AI considered with comprehension verified, deliberate decision with override reasoning, and tamper evidence confirmed via hash chain.

Transforms oversight into provable accountability
INTEGRITY

Cryptographic Audit Trail

SHA-256 hash chain with sequential event numbering, content hashing, and chain linking. RFC 3161 trusted timestamps from an independent timestamping authority. Self-contained verifier any third party can run.

818 events captured in a 6-minute session · All chain links verified
COMPLIANCE

Regulatory Mapping

Automatic compliance manifest mapping each session to HIPAA audit controls (§164.312), EU AI Act Articles 12 and 14, GDPR, and 21 CFR Part 11. Architecture exceeds Part 11 requirements for electronic records.

Compliance documentation generated automatically · No manual work
evidify_export_SES-xxxxx.zip
events.jsonl — hash-chained behavioral events
decision_trajectories.json — bias classification per case
double_bind_records.json — four-pillar accountability
derived_metrics.csv — per-case analysis variables
data_quality_index.json — automatic DQI scoring
compliance_manifest.json — regulatory mapping
verifier_report.html — standalone integrity verifier
analysis/
imrmc_raw.csv — FDA iMRMC-compatible
run.py — reproducible analysis script
notarization/
timestamp.tsr — RFC 3161 trusted timestamp
… 28 files total
From research platform to governance standard
Evidify is in active development with academic validation underway and regulatory alignment across US and EU frameworks.
VALIDATION

Academic Design Partnership Active

5-condition dismantling study design implemented. Full reader study protocol with Latin Square counterbalancing, configurable washout enforcement, and 50-case queuing. 18 end-to-end Playwright tests passing. IRB preparation underway.

PUBLICATION

AMIA 2026 Submitted

System demonstration and poster presentation submitted to AMIA 2026 Annual Symposium. RSNA 2026 abstract in preparation.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Patent Pending

Provisional patent filed covering sequential disclosure methodology, policy-as-code gates, cryptographic hash chain architecture, cross-domain kernel, and MRMC export. U.S. App. No. 63/987,880.

COMPLIANCE

Multi-Framework Architecture

Platform architecture maps to HIPAA audit controls, EU AI Act Articles 12 and 14, GDPR consent documentation, and 21 CFR Part 11 electronic records requirements. Compliance manifests generated automatically per session.

Let's talk

Evidify is working with academic researchers running MRMC reader studies, malpractice insurers developing AI risk frameworks, and health system risk management teams navigating AI documentation requirements.

If you're working on AI governance, documentation standards, or clinician-AI interaction research, I'd welcome a conversation.

Name Joshua M. Henderson, Ph.D.
Role Founder, Evidify LLC