Audit trails are product features in healthcare software

Healthcare software fails when compliance is treated as a launch checklist. The audit trail has to be part of the product design because clinicians and operations teams need to understand what happened, when, and why.

Useful audit trails include user identity, role, source record, viewed data, changed data, model output where AI is involved, and the business action that followed.

Designing this early improves both compliance and usability. Users can trust the system because the system can explain itself.