Chapel Hill, NC · Research Triangle · Orange County
A part-time CIO for Chapel Hill, NC firms.
Healthcare, education, and research services, where patient and student records decide what an AI tool is allowed to see.
Typical setup for this market. Not a client count.
The market
What Chapel Hill looks like from here.
Chapel Hill's business base is healthcare, education, and the research and professional services that orbit both. Patient records and student records decide what is allowed long before anyone asks about reporting. Your front desk is probably already drafting letters in an assistant. Your question is not whether that helps. It is whether the record was in the letter.
The usual systems in a Chapel Hill practice or firm are Microsoft 365, a practice or student management system, and a client tracking system. Finance tools report by export. The policy work comes first here because the data is regulated, and it is short: which tools, on which records, with whose sign-off. After that we scope a dashboard to the systems the policy clears, and you own it. Chapel Hill is in Orange County, and the research and healthcare employers across the Research Triangle set the same limits on records.
What we would expect to find here. Patient, student, and research records decide what is allowed before any reporting question does. We write that rule first, then build only on the systems it clears.
Chapel Hill is a service area, not an office. One team, based in North Carolina, works in your own systems.
Where this has run
A profile close to this setup.
Patient data was being entered into a public AI tool.
Multi-site healthcare practice · ~60 staff
Industries in Chapel Hill
Who we work with here.
Start here
- AI Use Policy — Advisory review
- Base dashboard deployment — Deployment
Where we work
Around Chapel Hill and across NC.
Questions
Questions about working with us from Chapel Hill
Where are you based and do you work remotely?
Third Shift Group LLC is based in North Carolina and works with firms across North and South Carolina. Most of the work runs remotely, against your Microsoft cloud account and your systems. Policy meetings and leadership sessions can be on site where that helps. See where we work for the regions and towns we cover.
We handle patient and student data. Where do we start?
With patient and student data, start with the written rule, then the read. Patient and student records set what is allowed, so the AI Use Policy comes first. The assessment then shows where that data reaches today, and the dashboard is scoped only to the systems the policy clears.
Start here
The first step is the same in every location.
Advisory first, in Chapel Hill as everywhere else: a written assessment you own.