Healthcare & Clinical Data

What clinical data do providers hold, and where does it live?

Most clinical data sits in the electronic health record (EHR). Imaging lives in PACS, with radiology reports in the RIS. Lab results come from the lab system, and device readings often sit in separate monitoring tools.

The value is in the links between them. A clinical dataset is more useful when an imaging report connects to the lab results, the diagnosis and the recorded outcome for the same de-identified patient.

• Encounter records with coded diagnoses and procedures
• Lab orders and results over time
• Radiology and pathology reports, and medical imaging
• Medication and treatment categories
• Follow-up visits and recorded outcomes

What do AI teams build with de-identified data?

Medical AI teams use de-identified data to train and test models on real cases. Public medical text explains diseases. It rarely shows the full path of one patient from first visit to outcome.

• Report and note structuring models
• Clinical decision-support research
• Risk and outcome prediction
• Medical imaging datasets for detection and triage research
• Evaluation sets with verified outcomes

How is patient privacy protected?

Nothing is licensed with names, contact details or other direct identifiers. In the United States, the HIPAA Privacy Rule recognizes two ways to de-identify health information: Safe Harbor, which removes listed identifiers, and Expert Determination, where a qualified expert confirms the risk of re-identification is very small.

Other countries have their own rules, and some uses need patient consent or ethics approval. The provider's privacy officer and counsel decide the legal basis. We work inside that decision, not around it.

How do you describe healthcare data for a first assessment?

You do not send any patient data to start. Describe the record types, the years covered, the rough number of patients or encounters, and the systems involved.

Say whether data has been de-identified before and by which method. Note any consent or research approvals already in place. We reply within 24 hours.