Information Set Emulation: Causal Certificates for AI Derived EHR Features

The paper introduces information set emulation, a method that attaches detailed causal certificates—such as source evidence, timing, and proposed causal roles—to AI‑derived features extracted from electronic health records (EHRs). These certificates provide auditable evidence for causal roles and guide whether a feature can be used for causal inference or should be routed to compatible reporting or separate analyses. The framework integrates with a joint EHR observation map and offers identification, estimation, and diagnostic tools under standard causal assumptions, illustrated through synthetic simulations and a finite‑world example.

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