Healthcare / Forward Deployed Engineering

Forward Deployed Engineering, all the way to production.

A senior US team embedded in your operation, building the AI that moves your numbers and running it in production. Most healthcare AI stops at the demo. We build the version that drives the operation, and you own what we build.

Why healthcare orgs choose us

Speed to value, built with judgment.

An applied AI and software firm since 2007. Senior US-based architects, who have built in both startups and enterprise, lead every engagement.

Speed to value

Production in weeks, not years.

Senior architects orchestrate; AI accelerates the build. A RAF platform live in 12 weeks. Ambient documentation in 90 days.

Healthcare-native

HIPAA and the EHR from day one.

PHI and CMS validation built in. Live in production on PointClickCare, with HL7 and FHIR across major EHRs. Not reading the spec for the first time.

You own what we build

Build, operate, transfer.

We hand over the code, the models, and the IP, and build your team’s capacity, not a dependency on ours. Right-sized for the mid-market, not rented from a platform.

Where we work

Production AI across three healthcare domains.

Most AI stops at the demo. These run in production, and every number is real.

Revenue Cycle

$24M+

Documented revenue impact with CommuniCare via MDS optimization. $10M+ PDPM recovered, plus $2M in annual quality incentives; hours of review cut to about a minute.

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Patient Engagement

26,000

Patients a day on NeverAlone, the virtual care platform we built and still operate. 96% treat-in-place across 130+ post-acute locations, 24/7.

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Clinical Workflows

45 → 5 min

Ambient documentation per visit at 95%+ accuracy. Clinicians see 2 to 3 more patients a day. EHR-integrated, in production.

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For your CTO

The production stack behind the outcomes.

The model is about 20% of the build. The other 80% is the engineering that gets AI to production.

Assurance & delivery

Evals + audit trail

Automated QA & evals · observability · bidirectional EHR write-back · CI/CD

Agentic orchestration & application

Agents inside a real product

Multi-agent orchestration · tool & function calling · workflow & business rules · human-in-the-loop · the app your team uses

Models & AI ~20% of the build

Model-agnostic + custom

Claude · GPT · open-source · fine-tuned · custom vision & edge models · RAG + embeddings · serverless, dedicated, or self-hosted per cost & PHI

Data & integration

Meets your systems where they are

EHR · HL7 / FHIR · clearinghouse & API connectors · data pipelines · custom query engine

PHI / compliance plane

Your PHI never leaves your boundary

HIPAA · signed BAAs · encryption · role-based access · full audit trail

One layer is the model. The other four are the engineering that gets it to production.  Model-agnostic · self-hosted-capable · yours to keep.
How we engage

Embedded in your operation. Build, operate, transfer.

Senior product, design, and engineering pods embed close to the operation, map the workflow, deploy the capability, build the integrations, and stay accountable until the system earns its place in production. You receive the trained-on-your-data instance, the configurations, and the integration code as permanent assets.

01 · Assessment

Find the ROI

2 to 4 weeks

02 · Pilot

A production pilot, not a demo

8 to 12 weeks

03 · Production

Operate, expand, transfer

Build · Operate · Transfer

The Strategic Frame

Your hospital’s moat is not in Epic. It’s in the layer above it.

Every comparable health system runs the same EHR, the same patient engagement platforms, the same revenue cycle stack. The differentiation is moving to the layer above them: the system of intelligence that reads across these platforms, decides what matters in the moment, and writes back into the work. Digital Scientists builds healthcare systems of intelligence. The institution owns what gets built.

01

NeverAlone: the front face of an institutional system of intelligence in production. 26,000+ patients, 130+ post-acute locations, 24/7/365.

02

MDS Optimization: the back face of an institutional system of intelligence in production. $24M+ in documented healthcare impact with CommuniCare.

03

Forward Deployed AI Engineering: the delivery model. Senior pods embedded close to your operation. Build, Operate, Transfer commercial terms.

The healthcare system of intelligence: a reasoning layer above the EHR, patient engagement platforms, and revenue cycle platforms. Patient Engagement is the front face. Revenue Cycle is the back face. AI capability is the engine.

The system of intelligence sits above the EHR. Vendor platforms become commodity infrastructure beneath it.

Put your healthcare AI into production.

A senior US team embedded in your operation, accountable to the return. You own what we build.

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