1. 90-Day AI Roadmap
See your exposure and your best payback
A fixed-scope review of your tenant, identity, AI exposure, and the automations with the best payback.
Get your 90-Day AI Roadmap →Healthcare AI · Rural and critical-access hospitals
AI automations for your rural hospital, built on Microsoft.
A large hospital has publicly reported what AI automation returned. We bring the same playbook to critical-access and rural hospitals on Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Azure, governed before it’s turned on, with no $50M budget and no in-house AI team.
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Three minutes, no email.
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Paid. A written plan for your next 90 days, in about two weeks.
What a flagship hospital just proved
A large hospital has shown what AI automation can return.
In 2026, Boston Children’s Hospital reported 50+ AI automations, tens of thousands of staff hours saved, and roughly $7M in redeployed labor, with more than a third of employees using AI daily. The automations weren’t exotic: supply-chain invoice processing, operating-room scheduling, predictive bed-capacity modeling, patient-message drafting, translation, discharge planning. The question for a rural hospital is which of these fit, and where to start.
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50+ automations
In production across operations and clinical support.
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Tens of thousands of hours
Of staff time saved and redeployed to higher-value work.
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About $7M
In redeployed labor, with more than a third of employees using AI daily.
Boston Children’s Hospital’s results are its own publicly reported figures, cited as evidence the category works. Centered Networks is not affiliated with Boston Children’s.
The catch, and the reframe
Everything that makes this look out of reach is the part that doesn’t apply to you.
| The catch | The reframe |
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| Boston Children’s got there with a reported $50M OpenAI partnership and a hired AI team. | A rural hospital doesn’t need either. |
| The headlines make AI automation look like a big-system capability. | The same automations run on Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (formerly Microsoft 365 Copilot), Power Platform, and Azure OpenAI. |
| They had to build a custom platform. | You’d be turning on what you’re already licensed for, often at Microsoft nonprofit and rural pricing. |
Governed before it’s turned on
The risk isn’t that AI fails. It’s that it succeeds on the wrong data.
Staff may already be pasting PHI into consumer AI tools outside your environment, your retention rules, and your audit trail. Every automation we deploy ships on a governance baseline first.
Microsoft Entra
Identity and access controls, scoped to PHI-cleared roles and devices, before any automation goes live.
Microsoft Purview
Data-loss prevention and sensitivity labels, so PHI doesn’t leak into an AI answer.
CIS Top 18 IG1
A security posture hardened to the baseline your auditor and your cyber-insurer expect.
So every automation is defensible to your board, your auditor, and your cyber-insurer. Turning on Copilot is the easy part. We make it safe enough to take to the board.
Built for healthcare realities: HIPAA alignment, identity, resilience, and compliance, not generic MSP work. Five Microsoft Solutions Partner designations, including Data & AI and Security, verified by Microsoft.
How to start
Three steps, each scoped in writing, each yours to keep.
2. Healthcare AI Readiness
Scope and govern your first automations
A HIPAA-aligned engagement: we audit your AI governance against HIPAA safeguards, map the clinical and operational automations that fit your hospital, and hand you an automation plan your IT and compliance teams can execute, yours to keep.
See Healthcare AI Readiness →3. CompleteCare
Run it as a managed platform
Ongoing security, compliance, identity, and AI operations, run as a month-to-month managed platform.
Explore CompleteCare →Funding
There are two ways to pay for this. They stack.
Microsoft licensing value can offset cost on its own, and much of the security, governance, and AI work qualifying rural hospitals need can often be funded through two separate, complementary programs. We help you map each piece of work to the right one.
Federal grant · distributed by your state
Rural Health Transformation Program
The $50 billion fund from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Cybersecurity, IT modernization, and AI are named, allowable uses, distributed through your state on rolling application windows. We are not grant writers, but we give your CFO and grant team a defensible scope, indicative pricing, and a use-of-funds mapping in the language a state application expects.
See the RHTP funding guide →Microsoft · philanthropic program
Microsoft Rural Health Resiliency Program
Discounted Microsoft licensing, free cybersecurity assessments, and free AI tools for qualifying rural and critical-access hospitals, subject to Microsoft’s current program rules. We handle eligibility and execution as your CSP.
See the Resiliency Program →Frequently asked questions.
“We’re not really doing AI yet.”
In practice, your staff usually are: on PHI, in consumer tools, with no governance behind it. Step one is simply seeing your exposure.
“We don’t have the IT staff for this.”
That’s the point. We build and govern it; your team keeps running the hospital. No new headcount required.
“Isn’t this risky with HIPAA?”
Done ungoverned, yes. Done governed-first on your Microsoft stack, with identity, DLP, and audit logging in place before any automation goes live, it’s more defensible than the shadow AI you have today.
“Are you locking us into a contract?”
No. The managed services are month-to-month with 30 days’ notice, and you keep every asset we build. Where a productized offer carries a minimum term, it is stated on that offer’s page.
The category is proven. Let’s map your hospital’s shortest path to it.
Start with the 90-Day AI Roadmap, a paid, fixed-scope engagement: we map where AI is already in use, what you’re licensed for, and the three to five automations with the best payback, governed first, measured, and yours to keep.
Not ready for a paid engagement? Take the three-minute Opportunity Finder (no email). Prefer to see the rural hospital practice first? See the rural hospital practice →
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