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INDUSTRY · HEALTHCARE AI · CLINICAL + EHR

Clinical AI that survives the audit.

Production AI for hospitals, EHR add-ons, and medical platforms. Clinical summarization, evidence-grounded copilots, on-prem deployment, and an eval suite that names accuracy, safety, and PHI handling as first-class metrics next to latency.

Industry
Clinical AI · EHR add-ons
Compliance
HIPAA-aware · on-prem ready
Reliability
Eval-gated releases
Stack
Direct LLM · auditable
[WHAT WE HEAR FROM CMIOs AND CTOs]

Three pains every clinical-AI team hits.

We have watched these patterns in hospital systems, EHR add-on vendors, and clinical-summarization startups. The shape repeats across geographies.

The fix is not a more confident demo. The fix is evidence: an eval suite a CMIO can read, an audit trail compliance can defend, and a deployment shape your security team signs off on.

PAIN · 0101 / 03

Clinical AI fails the second hospital.

Models tuned on one institution's note style, terminology, and workflow break when deployed at the next. Without a stratified eval, nobody notices until a clinician does.

↓ How we fix it, below.
PAIN · 0202 / 03

Compliance is a board-level conversation.

PHI handling, audit trails, hallucination risk, FDA posture. The clinical leadership needs answers in the same meeting as the budget. Without an audit-grade stack, the answer is always 'we are working on it.'

↓ How we fix it, below.
PAIN · 0303 / 03

Architecture today shapes the EHR for a decade.

Hospitals do not rebuild stacks every two years. Vector store, model provider, deployment shape, eval cadence — those choices get inherited by the next CIO and the one after that.

↓ How we fix it, below.
[SIX SERVICE ITEMS · ONE TEAM]

Pick the clinical-AI problem.
We'll bring the build.

Eight-week engagements, eval suite at handoff, deployment shape your security team can sign off on. Bundle two when the problem warrants.

SERVICE · 01 / 06Core clinical AI
Clinical summarization engine

Discharge summaries, progress notes, and visit summaries that doctors trust enough to sign. Evidence-grounded, hallucination-bounded.

  • Source-cited summarization with per-claim grounding
  • Specialty-tuned templates: cardiology, oncology, primary care
  • Configurable read-back: clinician edits feed the next prompt
AnthropicPostgreSQLTypeScriptOpenTelemetry
SERVICE · 02 / 06Reliability + safety
Eval suite for clinical AI

Accuracy, safety, and PHI handling as named metrics. Stratified per specialty, per institution, per population. Gated on every release.

  • Golden set of clinician-validated summaries per specialty
  • Hallucination + omission + harm scoring
  • Stratified drift detection per site and per population
LangSmithPromptfooPythonClickHouse
SERVICE · 03 / 06RAG over medical literature
Evidence-grounded copilot

A clinical copilot that cites guideline source-of-truth, not blog posts. PubMed, UpToDate-style internal libraries, internal protocols.

  • RAG over guidelines + internal protocols with citation chain
  • Refusal patterns when evidence is missing or weak
  • Tooluse for dose calculators, lab interpretations, contraindications
pgvectorAnthropicTypeScriptPostgres
SERVICE · 04 / 06HIPAA-aware
On-prem / VPC deployment

Run open-weights models inside your VPC or on your hardware. Air-gapped where required, PHI never leaves the boundary.

  • Self-hosted Llama / Mistral / Qwen with vLLM throughput
  • Audit trail and access logging at the proxy layer
  • BAA-ready vendor selection where SaaS is acceptable
vLLMLlamaKubernetesOpenTelemetry
SERVICE · 05 / 06What CMIO sees at 3am
Production observability + audit

Every prompt, every completion, every clinician edit logged with retention controls. Audit trail SOC 2 + HIPAA defensible.

  • End-to-end traces with PHI redaction on the wire
  • Cost-per-encounter metering per facility
  • Eval-as-monitor: drift alerts before clinicians see it
OpenTelemetryGrafanaDatadogSentry
SERVICE · 06 / 06Pre-build wedge
Architecture review

One-week audit of your clinical-AI stack with written decisions: vector store, model provider, deployment shape, eval cadence, audit posture.

  • Vector store: Postgres + pgvector or vendor SaaS
  • Model selection scored on accuracy, latency, BAA, exit cost
  • Eval cadence: what to ship first, what to defer to v2
ADRsPostgresvLLMCloudflare

Most engagements bundle two: a clinical build (01, 03) paired with the discipline that keeps it auditable (02, 05). Bring the shape closest to your blocker.

Scope your engagement →

Want to see the K-Framework discipline behind every item? Read the K-Framework.

[THE STACK · BY LAYER]

Audit-grade infrastructure. Clinical results.

Boring tools that hospital security teams have already approved. Self-host where required, BAA-backed SaaS where acceptable.

LAYER · DATA + RETRIEVAL

Data + retrieval.

The store, the index, the search

PostgreSQLpgvectorRedisClickHouseBigQueryOpenSearch
LAYER · MODEL LAYER

Model layer.

Embeddings, providers, fallbacks

OpenAIAnthropicCohere EmbedVoyageLlama (self-hosted)vLLM
LAYER · EVAL + OBSERVABILITY

Eval + observability.

The eval bar, the cost meter, the drift alarm

LangSmithPromptfooOpenTelemetryDatadogGrafanaSentry
LAYER · BACKEND + TRANSPORT

Backend + transport.

Type-safe everything

TypeScriptNext.jsPythonFastAPIgRPCBullMQtRPCZod
LAYER · MOBILE

Mobile.

iOS + Android, native or cross

React NativeExpoSwiftKotlinFCMAPNs
LAYER · CLOUD + DEPLOYMENT

Cloud + deployment.

Whatever your infra already runs

Cloudflare WorkersCloudflare R2AWSGCPVercelFly
✕ WHAT WE DO NOT SHIP

Direct against the model API. Self-host where compliance requires it.

  • No LangChain
  • No LlamaIndex
  • No agent framework
  • No orchestration vendor
  • No black-box ML platform
[PROOF · WHAT THE STACK DELIVERS]

Numbers that survive
a compliance review.

MEASURED · WEIGHTED · 2024–2026
VOLUME
100k+

Clinical notes processed in eval sets

SAFETY
0

PHI leaks across audited engagements

LATENCY
p95 / 1.2s

Summarization round-trip target

COMPLIANCE
HIPAA

BAA-ready vendor selection by default

HEALTHCARE AI · APPLIED K-FRAMEWORK

Bring the clinical problem.
We'll bring the audit trail.

Eight weeks, fixed scope, eval suite + audit log at handoff. Direct LLM engineering on top of the K-Framework. Two Q3 slots remain.

CYCLE
8 weeks · problem to live
OUTPUT
Code · evals · audit trail
DEPLOYMENT
On-prem or BAA-backed