Sudo Health LLC
Your Healthcare Data. Your Permissions.
Healthcare Informatics and AI Consulting. Open-source tools, HIPAA-grade security, and radical transparency for organizations ready to take back root-level control of their data.
Principles
What I won't compromise on.
Open source, always.
Every tool and framework I recommend is open source, community-audited, and free from vendor lock-in. Healthcare organizations deserve full control over their AI infrastructure. That means no dependence on a vendor's roadmap, a vendor's pricing, or a vendor's continued existence.
Security isn't an add-on.
HIPAA compliance, PHI protection, and zero-trust architecture are starting points, not afterthoughts. I apply an MCP framework mindset to every pipeline I touch: audit the boundaries, validate the contracts, assume nothing.
I document what I deploy.
Radical transparency is how trust gets earned. Every deployment ships with documentation clear enough for your team to operate, debug, and improve without me. If I can't explain it, I don't deploy it.
The commons matters.
I contribute upstream, share templates, and help build the healthcare AI commons. Smaller organizations and safety-net hospitals benefit alongside major health systems. Strategy doesn't have to be a moat.
Services
Fixed-scope packages.
Transparent pricing.
Healthcare teams get pitched dozens of AI vendors. I help you separate real from hype, safe from risky, sustainable from dead end. Every engagement is scoped for how hospital IT actually works.
AI Readiness Assessment
$5k to $15kCurrent state analysis, gap assessment, prioritized roadmap, security posture review, and an executive summary you can hand to your board.
For: Leadership teams scoping an AI strategy.
LLM Pilot Program
$15k to $40kUse case selection, open-source stack deployment, validation protocol, pilot results, and a clear go/no-go recommendation.
For: Organizations ready to prove value on a real workflow.
MCP Security Framework
$10k to $25kHealthcare-specific MCP architecture, tool access policies, PHI boundary controls, documentation, and training for your team.
For: Teams building LLM-powered tools that touch PHI.
Ongoing Retainer
$3k to $10k / moDedicated advisory hours, tool evaluation on demand, security review of new initiatives, and content co-creation.
For: Teams who want a trusted advisor on standby.
Hourly engagements from $150 to $400 per hour. Reduced rates are available for FQHCs, rural hospitals, and safety-net institutions. Ask.
About
Why "sudo"?
In Linux,
sudo
is the command that elevates your permissions. It gives you full
control over the system. Healthcare organizations have generated
mountains of data but have been locked out of leveraging it by
proprietary vendors who hold the keys.
Sudo Health exists to give healthcare its permissions back.
I'm Daniel Smith, a Healthcare Informatics & AI Consultant. I work with CIOs, CMIOs, clinical informaticists, and data science teams to adopt AI on foundations they can inspect, audit, and own. Open-source first. Security as foundation. Nothing deployed that can't be explained.
The work spans open-source LLM infrastructure (Ollama, vLLM, Open WebUI), MCP-based tool orchestration, HIPAA-aware pipelines, FHIR-integrated AI patterns, and clinical validation. If you're evaluating AI vendors and can't get a straight answer about what happens to your data, that's the problem I help with.
Contact
Let's talk.
The best first step is a 30-minute call. We'll talk through what you're trying to do, what's in your way, and whether there's a fit. If there isn't, I'll point you somewhere useful.