AI Automation Manager · Healthcare
Mark Socks
Putting AI and automation to work across a large health system.
Fifteen years at Henry Ford Health — inpatient clinical systems, a legacy-EHR-to-Epic conversion, then a long run in health information exchange as programmer, architect, and team lead. Today I manage the Automation team in our Digital Enablement Hub, where AI, automation, and analytics come together.
// what I work on
Focus
AI adoption & enablement
Leading the GitHub Copilot rollout across analytics and engineering teams, and building on Azure AI Foundry — MCP servers, guardrails, tip sheets, and the human side of getting people to actually use it.
Clinical interoperability
HL7 / FHIR, CCD generation, and Mirth Connect pipelines that move clinical data where it needs to go — reliably and at scale.
Automation & tooling
Python and TypeScript that remove manual work — document intake, OCR, patient matching — and the cloud architecture underneath it.
Engineer → manager
Running the Automation team — translating between executives and engineers, turning AI strategy into tooling, standards, and adoption people can rely on.
// selected projects
Work
Fax AI
OCR + AI to extract fields and index charts from thousands of incoming faxes a day, with assists for patient matching and catching human errors.
GitHub Copilot Rollout
Bringing GitHub Copilot to analytics teams and developers across Henry Ford Health — standing up MCP servers, writing tip sheets, and driving adoption.
CCD Generation
Building Continuity of Care Documents from HL7 messages to streamline how incoming clinical results land in the Epic system.
// the road here
Path
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~/clinical-systems
Clinical information systems
Inpatient EHR support — keeping the systems clinicians depend on running, and learning how hospitals actually work.
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~/epic-conversion
Legacy EHR → Epic
Helped carry the health system through its conversion from a legacy EHR to Epic.
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Health Information Exchange
Programmer to architect to team lead — clinical interoperability at scale, plus a stretch on the analytics and reporting side.
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~/automation — now
Manager, Automation
Leading the Automation team in Henry Ford Health's Digital Enablement Hub — the home of AI, automation, and analytics.