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Why Healthcare AI Governance Has to Be Trauma-Informed First — Not Bolted On Later
After 10+ years as a clinician in community mental health and private practice, Nadege Petrie tested more EHR and EMR systems than she can count — and kept landing on the same conclusion: "As a clinician, I can't even use this system. Why would I want my clients to use this system?"
That frustration became a company. Nadege now builds AI governance infrastructure for healthcare — grounded in a five-checkpoint framework (review, validate, assign ownership, monitor, escalate) that has to be in place before a single line of code gets written, not added once the system is already deployed.
In this conversation, Nadege and Michelle talk about:
- Why most health-tech systems are built compliance-first and trauma-informed never
- What it actually felt like to move from executive (evaluating other people's products) to founder (owning every decision behind her own)
- Why she pushes back when her engineering team wants to defer governance work — and how she keeps them accountable to the framework
- Why "put a ticket in, IT will fix it" is the wrong answer to a structural problem
- Her message to any woman sitting on a gap she can see clearly but hasn't acted on yet: "The gap that you see is real. You're not crazy. You're being skipped."
About Nadege Petrie
Nadege Petrie is a clinician and healthcare AI founder building trauma-informed governance frameworks for health-tech systems. Connect with her at visionarypathway.co or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nad%C3%A8ge-petrie/.
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