Private AI · Medical practices

Use AI on patient documentation without sending PHI into the public cloud.

A managed, on-prem AI system for clinics, multi-provider practices, and specialty groups. Visit summaries, referral packet preparation, intake workflows, and admin follow-up — on hardware your practice controls. Designed around HIPAA, your Business Associate Agreements, and the Security Rule.

For 5–50 provider practices. Apple-silicon hardware. Managed by Wilcoe.

The HIPAA conversation public-tier AI can't pass.

Clinicians want AI on documentation. Practice managers want it nowhere near a vendor without a BAA. These three frictions are what our medical clients walk in with.

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"Did that vendor sign a BAA?"

If a cloud service creates, receives, maintains, or transmits ePHI on your behalf, it becomes a Business Associate. No BAA, no use of that service for PHI. Public chatbot tiers don't sign BAAs at all — full stop.

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"Where's the audit trail?"

The Security Rule expects access logs, role-based access, and risk analysis. Most public tools leave you to assemble that yourself. A managed appliance comes with it built in, scoped to provider, role, and visit.

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"What if a clinician pastes a chart?"

Cultural and technical controls. The appliance is the approved place for PHI work; cloud chat tools can be policy-restricted to non-PHI tasks (continuing education, research, generic drafting) so a slip becomes harder.

What we tend to start with.

Documentation acceleration first. Diagnosis, treatment, and clinical decision-making stay with clinicians.

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Visit summaries from transcription.

Recorded visits → structured visit notes (HPI, A&P, follow-up). Mandatory clinician review and signoff before anything lands in the chart. Reduces documentation time without changing the clinical narrative.

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Referral packet preparation.

Compile a structured packet from chart sections, lab results, and imaging summaries for the receiving provider. Saves hours of paralegal-style assembly that referring offices currently do by hand.

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Intake summarization & pre-visit prep.

New-patient intake forms and prior records → pre-visit summary delivered to the provider before the appointment. Saves the first 5–10 minutes of every visit.

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Scheduling & admin follow-up.

Recall lists, post-visit follow-up sequences, prior-auth tracking, and patient-instruction drafts in your practice's tone. Front-desk acceleration with mandatory signoff before patient communication.

Built around HIPAA & your Business Associate Agreements.

The architecture maps cleanly to the Security Rule's administrative, physical, and technical safeguards.

No third-party vendor in the data path.

For workflows that run on the appliance, ePHI doesn't leave your environment. There's no Business Associate to negotiate with on routine documentation.

Audit-friendly access by default.

Role-based retrieval, provider-level access logs, and approval gates document the "who, what, when" the Security Rule expects.

Cloud fallback is BAA-only when allowed.

If your policy permits any cloud use, we structure it with vendors that sign a real BAA — and we keep that path narrow and documented.

Clinician-in-the-loop by design.

Every clinical-adjacent output requires clinician review. The system documents the review for audit and risk-management.

Wilcoe Private AI is designed around your HIPAA obligations. Final compliance signoff is practice-specific and remains with your privacy officer, compliance counsel, or risk-management committee. Read the full HIPAA & BAAs explainer →

Deployment shape.

A representative starting point. Right-sized in the Readiness Sprint and quoted firm-specifically.

ElementSmall to mid clinic (10–30 users)
Hardware1× Mac Studio M4 Max, 64–128GB RAM, encrypted local storage. Server room or locked cabinet. UPS. Multi-office? Add a second node with site VPN.
ModelsLocal models for all PHI workflows. Cloud only on workflows your policy explicitly allows, with a signed BAA and approved scope.
Knowledge layerLocal vector DB. PHI partitions per provider and per visit. Strict sync rules. Retention by your records-retention policy.
ControlsRBAC by role and provider, audit logs scoped to visit, MFA, encrypted backup, breach-response playbook. Minimum-necessary access enforced.
Cloud fallbackOff by default for PHI-touching work. Allowed via written policy + signed BAA for narrow approved tasks.

90 days from sprint to live.

One workflow live in a single office, with clinician signoff and a written architecture your privacy officer can review.

Days 1–14

Risk + workflow + privacy review.

Inventory PHI flows. Map the first workflow. Coordinate with privacy officer or compliance counsel.

Days 15–30

Hardware + policy pack.

Right-sized appliance. Written policies on PHI access, retention, and incident response.

Days 31–50

Install + identity + logs.

Network segmentation, MFA, role-based access, encrypted backup, audit logging by visit and provider.

Days 51–70

Connectors + first workflow.

Chart and visit-record indexing. The first vertical copilot, with clinician-review gates.

Days 71–90

Training + go-live.

Provider + admin training. Audit log review. Decide what to add next.

Common questions from practice managers.

Is this HIPAA-compliant?

It's designed around HIPAA. The architecture, policies, and audit trail map to the Privacy Rule, the Security Rule, and breach-notification expectations. Final compliance signoff stays with your privacy officer or compliance counsel; we provide the documentation they need to make the call.

Do I still need a BAA with Wilcoe?

Yes — for the management of the appliance and the workflow design, where Wilcoe could incidentally encounter ePHI during support, we sign a Business Associate Agreement. The architecture is built so that ePHI stays on your hardware in the data path, but the BAA covers our operational role.

What about EHR integration?

We integrate with what you have — read-only retrieval over your EHR's exported data, or via approved APIs where the EHR vendor supports it. The appliance doesn't replace your EHR; it sits beside it for documentation acceleration.

Can it diagnose or recommend treatment?

No. We deliberately don't sell decision-support. The system handles documentation, summarization, and admin acceleration. Diagnosis and treatment stay with clinicians, where they belong.

What about transcription privacy?

Transcription happens on the appliance. Audio doesn't leave your environment. Local speech-to-text models are good enough for clinical transcription in most use cases; we benchmark per-practice during the pilot.

How fast can we start?

The Readiness Sprint scopes the pilot in two weeks. Most practices launch live inside 90 days from sprint kickoff.

What does it cost?

Sized in the Readiness Sprint. Pilots vary several-fold across practice shapes. How we think about cost →

Use AI on patient work. Without giving it away.

Book a 30-minute Readiness Call. We'll walk through your highest-leverage workflow, the BAA frame for your practice, and what a 90-day pilot would look like.

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