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DSI Source Attributes for defense AI workflows

DSI Source Attributes in defense AI workflows: what compliance requires, who asks for evidence, and the records to keep.

Legal forceBinding on developers of certified health IT that certify to (b)(11)
Applies from1 Jan 2025
SectorDefense
Checked21 Oct 2026

01 / The rule

What DSI Source Attributes requires

Developers of Health IT Modules certified to 45 CFR 170.315(b)(11) under the ONC Health IT Certification Program; hospitals and clinicians are not directly regulated.

  1. 01Support all 31 source attributes for each predictive DSI and 13 for each evidence-based DSI the developer supplies.
  2. 02Give a limited set of identified users complete, up-to-date plain-language access to those attributes.
  3. 03Show when validation, local performance or update-schedule information is not available for a predictive DSI.
  4. 04Let identified users record, change and access source attributes, including extra attributes for predictive DSIs.
  5. 05Apply risk analysis, risk mitigation and governance to each supplied predictive DSI across eight characteristics, including validity, fairness and safety.
  6. 06From January 1, 2025, review and update source attributes and risk practices on an ongoing basis (45 CFR 170.402(b)(4)).

02 / In this sector

In a defense AI workflow

A predictive DSI is any technology that learns relationships from training data and outputs a prediction, classification, recommendation, evaluation or analysis, so machine-learning and other AI models in certified EHRs fall squarely in scope. The attributes amount to a mandated model card for those tools.

Usually asked by

Program office leads and ATO-package owners.

Named alongside

NIST AI RMF · DoW RAI · OMB M-25-21.

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03 / Records

Records to keep

  1. 01Source attribute record for each supplied predictive and evidence-based DSI
  2. 02External validation and fairness test results by demographic group
  3. 03Intervention risk management analysis and mitigation log
  4. 04Dated review history showing attributes kept current

Optional evidence · where Planisphere fits

Keep a record anyone can check

When your team meets a duty, Planisphere can seal the event it reports as a receipt.

01 · Your teamRecord the event

A disclosure shown, a review signed, a model change approved: the event your system reports.

02 · PlanisphereSeal it

The event becomes a sealed receipt, dated and attributed to whoever is signed in.

03 · AnyoneCheck it

Paste the receipt into Verify. No account or key.

A record supports your compliance evidence process. It is not a legal finding or a certification. Systems that call Planisphere's gate API can also hold or refuse an action before it runs.

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