For healthcare attorneys
When a client's AI question isn't a legal question
When to send a client to Mosaic Life Tech, what we do, and what stays with you.
The situations we're built for
The vendor agreement lets the vendor use and sell the client's data.
You flag the clause, and the client asks what to do now. We inventory what the vendor touches, turn your validation and audit questions into a working process, and help the practice identify who should own the answers.
Something to forward to the client: Does our vendor's BAA prevent them from using our patient data to train AI?
A license came with AI built in and nobody noticed.
The billing system, the scheduler, or the EMR pushed a feature that summarizes, suggests codes, or drafts patient messages. We help leadership find everything that's running, name an owner for each tool, and add a review step before the next feature goes live.
Something to forward to the client: How to create and maintain an AI tool inventory
Staff are using ChatGPT with patient, deal, or other confidential information.
A letter of intent went through a chatbot. A clinician is pasting notes into a personal account. We draft the policy the practice will enforce, help leadership decide which tools are allowed and for what, and train the staff so the rule holds.
Something to forward to the client: How to govern generative AI and agentic AI
An AI tool gave a wrong answer and the practice acted on it.
The contract system said nothing was expiring. Claims went out with the wrong dates. We set up validation before a tool goes live, a way to keep checking it after, and a record of who decided what and when.
Something to forward to the client: How to validate an AI tool before go-live
AI is in the deal.
Buy-side documents now carry AI representations and warranties on disclosure, governance, and auditing. A seller who can't answer them has a problem, and a buyer who closes without knowing what's running has a different one. We do the inventory and the governance assessment so the seller can answer, and the buyer knows what it's acquiring.
The client asks you to write the policy or train the staff.
That's the call you say no to, and it's the work we do.
Something to forward to the client: AI Governance Intensive for physician practices
What stays with you
Anything that's a legal question: whether use is permitted under HIPAA or state law, how the contract should read, the liability picture, how the deal is structured. We don't offer legal opinions, we say so to the client, and we refer legal questions back to you.
How we work with attorneys
We're independent. We don't sell software or represent vendors, and no referral fee is paid or accepted between us and a referring attorney. We work in alignment with Joint Commission and CHAI guidance and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
Engagements run from a short readiness review to a longer governance build. We sit alongside the client's existing committee, and executive accountability remains with the client's leadership.
What your client leaves with
Some examples: a written AI inventory, a named owner for each tool, policies staff can follow, and a decision record leadership can show a board, a buyer, or an auditor.
Workshops and executive sessions
We conduct workshops and custom engagements for executives, leaders, and committees on the latest developments and strategies in healthcare AI.
Who we are
Teresa Younkin, MSHI
CEO
20+ years in health IT. Health informaticist with an MIT certificate in AI product and service design. Built Geisinger Health Plan's enterprise data governance program, co-leads an HL7 Da Vinci use case, and has led AI workshops for NCPDP's VP- and CIO-level executives and the Nebraska Hospital Association.
Jim Younkin, MBA, FACHDM
CTO
30+ years in health IT. Co-founder of the Keystone Health Information Exchange, former community hospital CIO, and Fellow of the American College of Health Data Management. Holds a Harvard Medical School certificate in AI in Health Care and most recently led AI product delivery for a federal health client.
Mosaic Life Tech is an SBA designated woman-owned small business based in Chesapeake, Virginia. More about us
How to make an introduction
One email, copying us: "Teresa, this is Dr. Smith. Her practice has a question about AI use that's outside what we do. Can you two talk?"
We take it from there, keep you copied, and send anything legal back to you.
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