Who We Are
We are healthcare operations consultants with deep expertise in analytics, AI, and the organizational side of change — built to help health systems move from data to measurable outcomes.
Every health system is sitting on data that could transform how it operates.
The challenge isn't collecting it — it's knowing what to do with it, and having the tools and processes to act at the speed care demands. Sentinel Healthcare Consulting helps health systems close that gap: turning operational data into better decisions, safer care, and measurable cost savings.
We work with health systems, hospitals, and academic medical centers that have a mandate to improve efficiency, safety, or throughput. Our engagements are structured as project-based work, advisory relationships, or deeper partnerships depending on the scope and timeline of your challenges.
Our Philosophy
Most health systems are sold AI tools before they have identified the right problem. We start with the operational question — where can prediction, stratification, forecasting, or flow modeling move a metric you care about — and then evaluate whether AI is the right answer. Sometimes it isn't, and we'll tell you so.
Getting the technology right is only half the work. The other half is adoption, workflow change, and building the leadership muscle to act on what the data shows. We bring expertise in both halves.
Operational question first, algorithm second.
Solutions tailored to your data, workflows, and team.
Decision-making that lives in your organization.
Results tied to benchmarks you helped define.
Leadership
Co-Founder
Corrigan Research Professor at SMU Cox and Adjunct Faculty at UT Southwestern. Widely published in leading management and clinical journals, and an FDA expert panelist.
Expert
Managing Director and Healthcare practice lead at Sendero Consulting.
Co-Founder
Professor of Practice in Management at SMU Cox. Former Senior Research Scientist at Amazon.
Health systems that work with us leave with a different way of running their operation — not a set of recommendations.
"Sentinel helped us quantify the tradeoffs of a new procedural tool before we committed. Their analysis changed how we evaluate technology investments."
Send us your hardest operational problem. If we can't tell you something useful in 30 minutes, we're not the right firm.
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