Give patients a handout on AI report summaries
Patients bring me AI-written summaries of their scan reports, and I have no short, trusted page that tells them what those summaries can and cannot do.
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Source check: 2026-11-11 · Physician review: not yet recorded
The workflow
- Download the American College of Radiology's two-page handout on AI-generated summaries of radiology reports.
- Read it once so you know its message: summaries can contain mistakes, and the radiologist's report stays the official record.
- Keep printed copies with your patient education packet, and if your portal lets you attach files to messages, attach it when you send imaging results.
- When a patient shows you an AI summary of a scan, hand them the page and go over the actual report together.
Tools and cost
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Public resource
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What the evidence supports
The American College of Radiology provides a patient handout about AI-generated radiology summaries. Its announcement supports the resource’s purpose, not an improvement in patient outcomes.
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Where it goes wrong
It tells patients how to treat AI summaries but cannot check whether any given summary is accurate, and it covers radiology reports only.