Alex Rice leads global partnerships at ModelOp, connecting enterprise AI governance with the world’s top tech platforms.
In my role, I review countless partnership opportunities. It's rare that one has the potential to fundamentally shape an entire industry. Our new engagement with the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) is one of those rare moments.
I am thrilled to announce that ModelOp is a certified CHAI Assurance Resource Provider. This strategic alignment is designed to solve the single biggest challenge facing healthcare leaders today: how to accelerate the adoption of powerful AI technologies while guaranteeing safety, transparency, and compliance.
The healthcare industry is at an inflection point. The potential for AI to improve patient outcomes is undeniable, but this new landscape is uniquely complex. We're not just talking about Generative AI; we're integrating LLMs—great for reasoning and data analysis—with the specialized, high-stakes ML models still critical for analyzing medical images or predicting patient outcomes. This hybrid environment, mixing traditional ML with new AI, is powerful, but it magnifies the governance challenge.
Given the life-altering potential of AI in clinical settings, a robust governance framework is crucial for mitigating risks like patient harm and data privacy breaches. True governance requires close collaboration among a huge range of specialized roles: Model developers and data scientists must test and document the models; legal professionals must navigate rapidly-evolving regulations; risk management teams must assess new threats; compliance officers must enforce standards like HIPAA; and the AI CoE must provide strategic guidance over it all.
With this complex technology stack and all these stakeholder groups involved, the central question for healthcare leaders is: how do you scale from 10 use cases to 1,000 while ensuring every single one is compliant, performant, and auditable?
This is precisely the problem CHAI and ModelOp are coming together to solve.
CHAI Sets the Standard, ModelOp Provides the Engine
CHAI’s mission is to set the consensus-driven standards and best practices for trustworthy AI in healthcare. Their work is an essential blueprint for what responsible AI looks like.
As a certified Assurance Resource Provider, ModelOp provides the enterprise-grade software platform to operationalize that blueprint. By delivering the end-to-end lifecycle management and governance in a dedicated system of record, we can turn CHAI’s principles into automated, repeatable, and auditable processes.
Our acceptance into the program required meeting CHAI's rigorous certification criteria, which are critical for establishing trust. This includes everything from our ability to protect intellectual property and ensure robust privacy and security—backed by our SOC2 Type II certification—to our capacity for demonstrating data quality and integrity.
What Our Partnership Means for Healthcare
For health systems, pharmaceutical companies, and insurers, this partnership delivers immediate, tangible value:
- Accelerated Innovation with Confidence: Our platform is purpose-built to orchestrate the entire model lifecycle—from intake to retirement—for all model types, including GenAI and third-party systems. By embedding CHAI’s frameworks directly into our automated workflows, we help organizations cut time-to-market for new AI initiatives while ensuring full compliance.
- A Single System of Record for AI Governance: ModelOp unifies every stakeholder—from data science and IT to legal, risk, and compliance teams—in one platform. This eliminates silos and creates a single source of truth for every AI asset in the organization.
- Standardized, Transparent Reporting: A cornerstone of CHAI’s framework is transparency through "CHAI model cards". ModelOp Center is designed to make the creation of these model cards simple and repeatable, providing clear documentation on model performance and evaluation.
Looking Ahead: The CHAI National Registry
Beyond these immediate benefits, we are excited about the future of this partnership. CHAI is developing a National Registry for AI model performance. Our vision is to build a streamlined integration that allows organizations to securely and easily submit their attested model cards from ModelOp directly to this registry, contributing to a nationwide ecosystem of trust and transparency.
This private-sector-led initiative is critical for building trust in AI technologies. We are honored that CHAI has certified ModelOp as a key enabler of this mission. Together, we are not just talking about responsible AI; we are providing the practical tools to build it, scale it, and govern it across the healthcare enterprise.
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