James Rodriguez, PA-C
Clinical AI & Informatics Leader
Physician Assistant with 14 years of clinical experience and 5 years leading healthcare AI adoption at scale. I've built and deployed 3 AI tools used by 200+ clinicians at WellMed, achieved 94% adoption rates, and earned a promotion to Director by automating what used to require 3 full-time trainers. Now I'm pursuing the intersection of clinical expertise and AI systems — helping healthcare organizations turn promising technology into measurable clinical impact.
Key Achievements
Numbers from the work, not the resume.
- Promoted from palliative care PA to Director of Clinician Education after CEO George Rapier recognized the onboarding automation program
- Built DocGuard AI — a real-time clinical documentation validator that helps physicians close HCC diagnoses and maximize risk adjustment accuracy
- Currently pursuing AMIA 10x10 certification in Biomedical Informatics & AI (Apr – Jul 2026)
- Outreach to Hippocratic AI, Navina AI, and Optum leadership — active pipeline in clinical AI adoption consulting
Clinical AI that actually sticks.
Most healthcare AI fails at adoption — not because the technology is bad, but because it wasn't designed with clinicians in mind.
I've spent 5 years on the inside of that problem: building training systems, deploying AI tools, and measuring what makes providers use (or ignore) new technology. I'm looking for roles where clinical credibility and AI fluency together create impact — Director of Innovation, Clinical Informatics, or AI adoption leadership.
Skills & Expertise
Projects
Things I've built — in production, not just on a slide deck.
DocGuard AI
LiveReal-time clinical documentation assistant. Validates MDD diagnoses against DSM-5 criteria, flags missing symptom clusters, recommends severity levels, and helps physicians maximize HCC capture for risk adjustment. Built with TypeScript, Next.js, and OpenAI.
Clinical AI Success
ConsultingConsulting practice helping healthcare AI vendors fix adoption failures. Services range from $5k discovery audits to $7.5–15k/month implementation retainers. Niche: when you have great technology that clinicians won't use.
WellMed AI Onboarding System
Deployed at ScaleAutomated clinician onboarding system that replaced 1–2x/month in-person training travel across Texas and Florida. Included AI-generated video content, structured learning paths, and an AI avatar trained on palliative care conversations. Result: 94% adoption across 200+ clinicians, CEO recognition, and promotion to Director.
Samantha — AI Chief of Staff
Personal AIA personal AI operating system that manages job search pipelines, health tracking, daily briefings, project management, and automated workflows. Built from scratch to demonstrate practical fluency with LLMs, APIs, Next.js, PostgreSQL, and real-time automation at the infrastructure level.
What Colleagues Say
From the people who worked alongside the work.
“James's onboarding program changed how we think about clinical education. What used to take weeks of travel and in-person sessions now happens asynchronously — and providers actually retain it.”
— Physician, WellMed Palliative Care Division
“I've worked with a lot of clinical educators who describe AI tools. James is one of the few who actually builds them. That combination is rare.”
— Medical Director, WellMed
“The training materials James created for our EMR rollout were the clearest I've ever seen. He translates clinical workflow into technology language and back — something most people can't do.”
— Nurse Practitioner, WellMed Texas
Let's Work Together
Open to Director of Innovation, Clinical Informatics, and AI adoption leadership roles.
Let's talk about what you're building.