What Is Post-Market Monitoring?
Post-Market Monitoring is the systematic collection and analysis of data on the performance, safety, and impact of an AI system after it has been deployed in production.
Post-Market Monitoring — the systematic collection and analysis of data on the performance, safety, and impact of an AI system after it has been deployed in production.
Post-market monitoring is a legal obligation under the EU AI Act for high-risk AI providers (Article 72). The obligation covers: collecting user feedback, tracking performance metrics, detecting bias, identifying failures, and reporting serious incidents. It mirrors post-market surveillance requirements for medical devices and other regulated products. In practice, it requires AI systems to be designed with monitoring instrumentation from the outset — retrofitting monitoring to a deployed system is technically costly.
Source: EU AI Act, Article 72
Plain-language explanation
Post-market monitoring is a legal obligation under the EU AI Act for high-risk AI providers (Article 72). The obligation covers: collecting user feedback, tracking performance metrics, detecting bias, identifying failures, and reporting serious incidents. It mirrors post-market surveillance requirements for medical devices and other regulated products. In practice, it requires AI systems to be designed with monitoring instrumentation from the outset — retrofitting monitoring to a deployed system is technically costly.
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