About · BastionGPT

The HIPAA-compliant AI built for healthcare.

For three years, BastionGPT has helped clinicians, practices, and health systems use generative AI without putting patient data at risk. Built by healthcare technology veterans, trusted by 10,000+ healthcare organizations.

BastionGPT booth at the APA 2025 conference
How we build BastionGPT

Four principles we won't trade off.

These aren't posters in a break room. They're how we decide what ships and what doesn't.

Healthcare or nothing

BastionGPT is built exclusively for healthcare. Every model, prompt template, and workflow is tuned for clinical, administrative, and compliance use cases, not retrofitted from a general-purpose chatbot.

HIPAA-compliant by default

A signed BAA is included with every plan. Your data is encrypted, isolated, and never used to train models. Privacy and security are part of the product, not an enterprise upsell.

Built with clinicians

Practicing physicians, psychologists, and nurses on our advisory board review the templates, evaluations, and safety guardrails. If a workflow wouldn't survive contact with a real clinic, it doesn't ship.

Multi-model, single interface

BastionGPT integrates the leading frontier models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, behind one HIPAA-compliant interface. You get the best of each, without the procurement overhead.

Our history

Five years building healthcare's most trusted AI.

From a side bet on healthcare AI to the platform 10,000+ organizations rely on every day.

2011

Founders lead AI innovation in major health systems

Our executives lead the evaluation and implementation of AI technologies for healthcare providers with an annual spend totaling $4.9 billion.

2021

Bastion is founded

Founded with a bet that generative AI in healthcare would need dedicated, healthcare-only expertise, not a side practice of a generalist software company.

2023

BastionGPT launches

We ship the first version of BastionGPT, the HIPAA-compliant AI platform with a signed BAA on every plan, built in response to repeated requests for a compliant alternative to ChatGPT.

2024

Microsoft Partner status; multi-model integration

Admitted to the Microsoft Partner Network for Azure AI deployments. BastionGPT expands to integrate OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models behind one compliant interface.

2025

AI Medical Scribe launches

BastionGPT's AI Medical Scribe arrives with up to 4-hour recordings to meet the demands of psychology and long-form clinical sessions, plus best-in-class speaker recognition for more accurate, multi-speaker notes. Same HIPAA-compliant foundation, purpose-built for the way clinicians actually document.

2026

10,000 organizations, one focus

Over 10,000 healthcare organizations now use BastionGPT, from solo psychiatrists to integrated delivery networks, all held to the same compliance posture we started with.

Leadership

The team behind BastionGPT.

Decades of combined leadership across healthcare systems, enterprise security, and AI, guiding BastionGPT through scale, compliance, and clinical trust.

Josh SpencerJS

Josh Spencer

CEO

Founded Bastion Intelligence and sets overall strategy, architecting BastionGPT's healthcare-exclusive mandate across product, security, and research. Previously spent 13 years at UT Southwestern Medical Center, a $4.9B academic medical center, as CISO and later CTO, leading 120+ technology professionals and earning commendation from HHS. MBA (cum laude), UTSA; AI/ML certificates from Stanford and Microsoft. Adjunct faculty, UT Alliance for Physician Leadership.

Robert HenehanRH

Robert Henehan

COO

Runs administrative operations and enterprise customer relationships at Bastion Intelligence. Previously scaled analytics, EHR, and business intelligence programs across leading health systems, most recently as Director of Analytics and Business Applications at El Camino Health in Silicon Valley. Former Senior Consultant at Nordic Global and Huron; former Project Manager at Epic. BS, Yale; Executive MHSA, University of Michigan.

Amber TurrillAT

Amber Turrill

CMO

Leads brand, demand generation, and communications for Bastion Intelligence and BastionGPT. Brings more than a decade of experience in SEO, paid media, demand generation, and analytics, including Director of Digital Marketing and Demand Gen at SpiderOak, a cybersecurity software company. MA, University of Maryland.

Nicolas CavaNC

Nicolas Cava

CTO

Leads engineering, infrastructure, and AI model integration for BastionGPT. Brings 15+ years building and managing product engineering teams at PetalMD (healthtech), Swile (fintech, $70M Series C), and CrakRevenue (adtech/big data), with deep expertise in the organizational and architectural patterns that let companies ship production-quality software at velocity.

Catherine SpencerCS

Catherine Spencer, RN

Head of Customer Experience

Leads customer onboarding, billing, and the sales and support experience at Bastion Intelligence, serving the thousands of clinicians and healthcare organizations that rely on BastionGPT. Has built the customer-facing systems and standards supporting a healthcare-only customer base with strict privacy and compliance expectations since 2023.

Joshua CruzJC

Joshua Cruz

Customer Success Manager

Leads product demonstrations, evaluation workflows, and conference engagement for BastionGPT customers. Partners with clinicians and practice leaders to translate platform capabilities into measurable workflow impact, with a background in healthcare AI go-to-market.

Marie ZhangMZ

Marie Zhang

Head of User Experience

Owns the interface design and user experience, site architecture, and marketing web properties for Bastion Intelligence and BastionGPT. Background as a UX and Webflow designer focused on high-converting marketing experiences for SaaS and technology companies.

Evan RallisER

Evan Rallis

Head of Product

Advises product strategy, roadmap, and discovery for BastionGPT. Four-time founder and product leader, most recently Head of Product at Grantable (AI-assisted grant writing) and VP of Product at Grata (B2B data platform). Reforge alum with deep experience in product-led growth across B2B and B2C SaaS.

Nirav V.NV

Nirav V.

Lead Developer

Serves as the primary technical lead for BastionGPT development. Brings a decade of full-stack experience across enterprise financial and healthcare platforms, with published technical writing on modern JavaScript architecture. BE, Computer Engineering.

Amin RaiyaniAR

Amin Raiyani

Lead Front End Designer

Translates BastionGPT's product into clean, accessible interfaces for healthcare users. Founder and CEO of Amilek Consultancy Solution, with 10+ years designing and shipping web apps, CRMs, and SaaS products. Previously Senior Front End Developer at smartSense Consulting Solutions (2015 to 2023). Deep expertise in Angular, React, and modern design systems.

Ty PierreTP

Ty Pierre

Senior Prompt Engineer

Optimizes the prompting layer across BastionGPT's integrated OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models for safety, accuracy, and clinical documentation standards. Works closely with customers to develop both foundational and advanced prompting skills. Focused on the healthcare-specific tuning that differentiates BastionGPT from general-purpose AI, including evidence-based guardrails, clinical templates, and workflow-specific response design.

Michael Maxted, MDMM

Michael Maxted, MD

Chief Clinical Advisor

Advises Bastion Intelligence on clinical workflow safety, physician usability, and real-world deployment of generative AI in surgical and outpatient settings. Board-certified orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Oklahoma City with subspecialty training in sports medicine and arthroscopy. MD, UT Southwestern Medical School; peer-reviewed publications in Arthroscopy Techniques and the Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports.

Clinical Advisory Board

Practicing clinicians, at the center of every decision.

Practicing clinicians across psychology, primary care, pediatrics, hospital medicine, and air medical transport. They review BastionGPT's evaluation rubrics, stress-test our safety work, and tell us when a feature wouldn't survive contact with a real clinic.

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Dr. Anna DiNoto, PsyD, LMHC, CFMHE

Forensic Psychology · Neurodiversity

Clinical psychologist and founder of Sandbox Therapy Group in Monroe, Washington. Expert in autism assessment and neurodivergent populations across the lifespan, with a special focus on neurodivergent females. Advises on documentation standards for forensic evaluations and neurodiversity-informed clinical workflows.

Founder, Sandbox Therapy Group; Faculty, The New International University

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Kolby Kolbet, RN, MSN, CFRN, FACHE, CMTE

Air Medical · Clinical Innovation

Chief Innovation Officer at Life Link III, a nonprofit air medical transport consortium serving the upper Midwest. Fifteen years in air medical transport, including a decade as VP and Chief Clinical Officer. Leads integration of ambient AI for clinical documentation in flight medicine and advises on real-time care documentation workflows.

Chief Innovation Officer, Life Link III

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Emma Levy

Educational Psychology · Learning Assessment

Clinical psychologist and co-founder of How I Learn, a Wellington-based educational assessment service for children, adolescents, and adults. Specializes in evaluations for learning disorders, giftedness, and intellectual disability. Advises on pediatric and educational documentation accuracy and family-centered communication.

Clinical Psychologist, How I Learn, New Zealand

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Dr. Adil Manzoor, DO, MBA, MS

Primary Care · Pediatrics

Internal medicine and pediatrics physician; Medical Director of HouseCall Doctors in New Jersey. Brings clinical experience spanning pediatric and adult ERs, ICU settings, and rehabilitation facilities. Advises on primary care documentation workflows and preventive medicine use cases.

Aspen Health Innovators Fellow; Cornell MBA

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Dr. Marta M. Shinn, PhD

Child Psychology · Assessment

Licensed clinical child psychologist and founder of Variations Psychology in Orange County, California. Specializes in independent diagnostic testing, special education planning (IEPs, 504s), and mental health interventions for underserved child populations. Serves as a Psychology Subject Matter Expert for the California Board of Psychology and national licensing bodies.

Founder, Variations Psychology; PCIT Trainer, UC Davis

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Dr. Kendall Smith, MD

Hospital Medicine · Revenue Cycle

Board-certified hospitalist and Chief Medical Officer of PayerWatch, with 25 years of experience in EMR technology, medical coding, and denial/appeals management. Designed clinical documentation improvement programs at major health systems. Advises on clinical documentation quality, coding accuracy, and payer compliance use cases.

CMO & Chief Physician Advisor, PayerWatch; SFHM

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Dr. Rachael St.Claire, PsyD

Psychology · Chronic Illness

Licensed clinical psychologist in Colorado with over 30 years of experience, including 28 years at Kaiser Permanente Behavioral Health. Specializes in evidence-based approaches (ACT, CBT, exposure therapy) for patients facing serious medical illness, organ transplantation, and autoimmune disorders. Advises on behavioral health documentation and integration with chronic care workflows.

Private Practice, Littleton, Colorado

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