Why Healthcare AI Governance Has to Be Trauma-Informed First — Not Bolted On Later
After 10+ years as a clinician in community mental health and private practice, Nadege Petrie tested more EHR and EMR systems than she can count — and kept landing on the same conclusion: "As a clinician, I can't even use this system. Why would I want my clients to use this system?"
That frustration became a company. Nadege now builds AI governance infrastructure for healthcare — grounded in a five-checkpoint framework (review, validate, assign ownership, monitor, escalate) that has to be in place before a single line of code gets written, not added once the system is already deployed.
In this conversation, Nadege and Michelle talk about:
Why most health-tech systems are built compliance-first and trauma-informed never
What it actually felt like to move from executive (evaluating other people's products) to founder (owning every decision behind her own)
Why she pushes back when her engineering team wants to defer governance work — and how she keeps them accountable to the framework
Why "put a ticket in, IT will fix it" is the wrong answer to a structural problem
Her message to any woman sitting on a gap she can see clearly but hasn't acted on yet: "The gap that you see is real. You're not crazy. You're being skipped."
About Nadege Petrie
Nadege Petrie is a clinician and healthcare AI founder building trauma-informed governance frameworks for health-tech systems. Connect with her at visionarypathway.co or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nad%C3%A8ge-petrie/.
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