Model Card Template

Example: Clinical Note Summarization v2.1

Model Details

Field Value
Model Name clinical-summary-v2.1
Base Model Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022)
Fine-tuned No (prompt-engineered)
Version 2.1.0
Release Date 2025-10-15
Owner AI Platform Team
Contact ai-platform@company.com

Intended Use

Primary use case: Summarizing clinical notes for physician review dashboard.

Intended users: Clinical staff reviewing patient histories.

Out of scope: - Direct patient communication - Clinical decision making without physician review - Pediatric notes (not validated) - Non-English notes

Training/Prompt Data

  • Prompt developed using 500 de-identified clinical notes
  • Validated on 200 held-out notes with physician review
  • No fine-tuning performed; uses prompt engineering only

Performance Metrics

Metric Value Measurement Date
Physician approval rate 94.2% 2025-10-01
Factual accuracy (spot check) 98.1% 2025-10-01
Hallucination rate 1.2% 2025-10-01
Mean processing time 2.3s 2025-10-01
P95 latency 4.1s 2025-10-01

Limitations

  1. May miss nuanced clinical context requiring specialist knowledge
  2. Abbreviation expansion occasionally incorrect for rare terms
  3. Long notes (>10 pages) may have reduced summary quality
  4. Not validated for: surgical notes, radiology reports, pathology

Ethical Considerations

  • All outputs must be reviewed by licensed clinician
  • PHI handling compliant with HIPAA
  • Bias testing performed across demographic groups (see appendix)
  • No disparate impact detected in summary quality by patient demographics

Monitoring

  • Daily evaluation on 100 production samples
  • Weekly physician review of flagged cases
  • Monthly bias audit
  • Alerts: >5% drop in approval rate, >3% hallucination rate

Version History

Version Date Changes
2.1.0 2025-10-15 Improved medication list extraction
2.0.0 2025-08-01 Switched to Claude 3.5, new prompt
1.2.0 2025-05-01 Added allergy highlighting

Model Card Template (Blank)

# Model Card: [Model Name] {.unnumbered}

## Model Details
| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Model Name | |
| Base Model | |
| Version | |
| Release Date | |
| Owner | |
| Contact | |

## Intended Use
**Primary use case:** 
**Intended users:** 
**Out of scope:** 

## Training/Prompt Data
[Description of data used for training or prompt development]

## Performance Metrics
| Metric | Value | Measurement Date |
|--------|-------|------------------|
| | | |

## Limitations
[Known limitations and edge cases]

## Ethical Considerations
[Bias testing, fairness considerations, required human oversight]

## Monitoring
[Ongoing evaluation cadence, alert thresholds]

## Version History
| Version | Date | Changes |
|---------|------|---------|
| | | |

Model Card Best Practices

What to include: - Specific, measurable metrics with dates - Explicit scope boundaries (what it’s NOT for) - Known failure modes - Required human oversight - Monitoring and alerting setup

What to avoid: - Vague claims (“high accuracy”) - Missing limitations - No versioning - Static documents that aren’t updated