AI Governance for Organizations Navigating AI Adoption
AI Governance, Regulatory Strategy, and Institutional Accountability, with a specialized focus on Healthcare AI Governance.
Most organizations can point to AI policies. Far fewer can demonstrate governance. Novara helps organizations strengthen accountability, oversight, and governance practices as AI adoption accelerates.
Most Organizations Can Point to Policies.
Far Fewer Can Demonstrate Governance.
AI systems are being adopted across operations, healthcare, finance, hiring, customer service, and decision-making workflows.
The challenge is not recognizing that governance matters. The challenge is proving that governance exists in practice.
Governance Questions
Governance Questions Are No Longer Theoretical
What AI systems are currently being used?
How were those systems approved?
How are vendors evaluated?
Who reviews outputs and decisions?
What documentation exists today?
Who is accountable for oversight?
Can governance practices withstand review?
Most organizations are not struggling because they lack policies. They are struggling because they lack answers.
How Novara Helps
How Novara Helps Organizations Prepare
Novara's work spans three areas: AI Governance, Regulatory Strategy, and Institutional Accountability, with a specialized focus on Healthcare AI Governance.
Governance Assessments
A structured evaluation of governance capability, maturity, and readiness across accountability, oversight, documentation, regulatory readiness, and procurement readiness.
Regulatory Strategy
Preparing organizations for evolving regulatory expectations and governance obligations across federal, state, and sector-specific frameworks.
AI Governance
Building the governance structures, decision-making frameworks, ownership assignments, and oversight mechanisms that allow organizations to govern AI use credibly.
Institutional Accountability
Building the documentation, governance evidence, and decision traceability that allows organizations to demonstrate governance under scrutiny.
Healthcare AI Governance
Novara's lead specialization. The highest-stakes application of the governance framework, for organizations deploying AI where regulatory scrutiny and accountability expectations are highest.
Who We Serve
Built for Organizations Where AI Risk Has Business Consequences
- Healthcare organizations
- Financial services organizations
- Technology companies and startups
- Public sector and mission-driven organizations
Healthcare AI Governance
Healthcare AI Governance
Healthcare organizations face increasing expectations around AI oversight, privacy, accountability, clinical decision support, procurement review, documentation, and vendor governance.
Novara helps healthcare organizations strengthen governance practices before those expectations become operational, regulatory, procurement, or reputational challenges.
Explore Healthcare AI GovernanceWhen Organizations Work With Novara
When Organizations Work With Novara
Implementing AI tools without a documented governance process.
Reviewing AI vendors and third-party technologies.
Preparing for questions from procurement teams, enterprise customers, boards, investors, or regulators.
Building AI governance policies and needing support with implementation.
Operating in sectors where accountability, oversight, and documentation requirements are increasing.
Founder-Led
Novara is founded and led by Riham Hashi, a Penn Carey Law graduate with 8+ years of experience spanning legislation, public policy, governance, stakeholder engagement, and regulatory strategy.
Research & Affiliations
Novara's work is informed by legal scholarship and engagement across Penn Carey Law, the Penn Center for Innovation, and the Wharton Venture Lab.
Author of The Governance Gap: AI Accountability in 2026.
Governance Questions Rarely Arrive With Warning
Organizations are increasingly expected to demonstrate not only that policies exist, but that governance practices exist.
Novara helps organizations prepare before governance challenges become operational, procurement, regulatory, or reputational issues.
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