Executive toolkits

Printable checklists for AI purchasing, board cyber oversight and nurse retention conversations.

Printable checklists for the conversations executive teams lead. Use your browser’s print option to print a toolkit or save it as a PDF.

AI vendor diligence checklist

Questions to answer before your organization signs an agreement for an AI tool.

What decision or task does the tool support, and who remains accountable for the outcome?
What data was the model trained and validated on, and does it resemble our patients?
What performance evidence exists, in which settings, and has it been independently reviewed?
How will we monitor accuracy, bias and drift after go-live, and who owns that monitoring?
Where is our data stored and processed, and is it used to train the vendor’s models?
What does the contract say about liability, audit rights and notification of errors or breaches?
How will clinicians and staff be trained, and how can they override or report a bad output?
How do we turn the tool off safely if it fails?

What a board should be able to answer about the organization’s ability to keep caring for patients through a cyberattack.

Which clinical services stop if the electronic health record is unavailable for a week?
When did we last practice downtime procedures, and what did we learn?
How quickly can we restore critical systems from backups we know are clean?
Which third-party vendors could take us offline, and how are they assessed?
Who decides to divert patients or shut systems down, and how fast can they be reached?
What does our cyber insurance cover, and what does it exclude?

Questions a manager can ask in a one-to-one conversation to learn what keeps a nurse, before they think about leaving.

Close by agreeing on one action and a date to follow up. See what nurse turnover costs your hospital.