Surgical Response: A Decision Framework for AI Containment in Clinical Environments

The report outlines how ransomware and dual-extortion attacks increasingly target healthcare—citing 460 incidents in 2025 and rising phishing-driven access—then proposes a four-layer governance framework for agentic AI (high-fidelity playbooks, clinical topology lists, EMR-sensitive context, and agentic memory) to enable rapid, risk-adjusted automated containment while preserving human oversight for patient-critical systems.