Avancer offers three engagements to boards and committees in health and life sciences. Each is set out below: who it is for, what happens, and what the board leaves with.

Board Readiness Workshop

For whom. A full board or a committee (audit, risk, or quality) at the start of its AI oversight.

What happens. A pre-read from the AI Governance Navigator tailored to the sector; a facilitated session on the oversight duty, the regulatory landscape, and the questions to put to management; and a closing executive session without management.

What the board leaves with. A written summary of the board’s positions, the question set for management, and a draft standing agenda item.

Pre-Deployment Review

For whom. A board or committee asked to approve a specific AI deployment, such as ambient documentation, prior authorization, or clinical decision support.

What happens. An independent review of the proposal against named criteria: the state and federal rules that apply in each jurisdiction where the system will operate; the Joint Commission Responsible Use of AI certification elements; the HIPAA Security Rule requirements due in July 2027; the vendor terms (no training on the organization’s data, change notification, audit rights, indemnification, and performance remediation); clinical safety and workflow; and the monitoring the board should require afterward. The review includes interviews with the sponsor, the general counsel, and the clinical or operational owner, and concludes with a written opinion. It is designed as the way to approve faster with conditions, not as a brake.

What the board leaves with. A review memorandum with findings, the conditions the board should attach to approval, and the monitoring the board should require afterward.

30-Minute Board Briefing

For whom. A scheduled board or committee meeting.

What happens. A briefing on one development or decision (a new regulation, an enforcement action, a vendor contract term, or a reported failure elsewhere) with the questions it raises for this board.

How long. Thirty minutes within a scheduled meeting, with a two-page pre-read.

What the board leaves with. A two-page pre-read for the board pack and a one-page follow-up.

How Engagements Are Run

The principals do the work; Avancer does not staff engagements with associates. Avancer holds no vendor, investor, or product relationships that bear on its advice, and discloses any that arise. Everything a board shares with Avancer is held in confidence. Every engagement begins with a stakeholder analysis grounded in the engagement’s intent.