I'm Dr Chiho Song — a practising NHS clinician who builds and deploys clinical AI. I help trusts and digital health teams work out where AI genuinely helps, design it around the clinician, plan its validation, and get it through clinical safety — so it reaches patients instead of stalling in a slide deck.
Dr Chiho Song (also written Chi Ho Song) is an NHS clinician and the founder of Spheno Labs, a UK digital healthcare solutions company. As a healthcare AI consultant he helps NHS trusts and digital health teams implement clinical AI safely — clinician-in-the-loop workflow design, validation planning, and the DCB 0129 clinical safety work needed for NHS go-live.
The model is usually the easy part. The work is the workflow it lives in, the failure modes nobody mapped, and the safety case that lets it go live.
Honest assessment of where clinical AI pays for itself and where it doesn't. No hype — a working clinician's read on whether the tooling moves a real number.
The AI structures and surfaces risk; the clinician decides. Workflow designed around the consultation, with hard rules above the model and a clear escalation path.
Define intended use, reference standard, cohort, metrics and acceptance thresholds before any deployment claim is made. Evidence first, marketing second.
Safety architecture and the DCB 0129 / DCB 0160 clinical safety case, prepared and signed off by a contracted Clinical Safety Officer. More on the CSO role →
Where it makes sense, Spheno Labs can build the system — or deploy from the Sphenoid OS suite. Where it doesn't, I'll say so.
Post-market surveillance, incident review and change control so the system stays safe and auditable after it goes live.
Helps teams decide where AI genuinely helps, designs the workflow around the clinician, plans validation, and makes sure the system meets clinical safety and regulatory requirements such as DCB 0129 before it touches a patient.
The hard part of clinical AI is rarely the model — it's the workflow, the failure modes and the safety case. Advice from a practising NHS doctor who also signs off clinical safety cases is grounded in how care actually runs.
Yes — validation planning, safety architecture, and the DCB 0129 documentation needed for NHS deployment. No exaggerated performance claims are made on a client's behalf.
Send a short note describing the problem, the setting and the timeline. The first conversation is an honest read on whether AI is the right tool at all. Get in touch →
NHS trusts, R&D leads, transformation teams and digital health founders. Tell me the problem and the setting — I'll give you a working clinician's honest read.