Two clinicians reviewing a brain scan on diagnostic monitors

Data Partnerships

Your healthcare AI training data partner.

Compliantly sourced clinical data, de-identified to a named HIPAA standard and annotated by medical specialists — so your models train on data your legal team will actually approve.

How we support healthcare AI teams

Source

Consented, provenance-tracked clinical data

Data acquired through documented agreements with care providers and diagnostic networks, with a chain of custody you can show a regulator.

De-identify

HIPAA Safe Harbor and Expert Determination

PHI removal engineered and documented against a named standard — not a regex pass and a hopeful email.

Annotate

Labeled by practising clinicians

Radiologists, physicians and coders doing the labeling, with adjudication and inter-annotator agreement reported per batch.

The problem

The bottleneck in healthcare AI isn’t the model. It’s the data.

Open medical datasets are small, narrow and already memorised by every model on the leaderboard. Real clinical data sits inside health systems that are structurally cautious about releasing it, and for good reason.

So healthcare AI teams end up spending their most expensive year not on modelling, but on data access — negotiating with providers, standing up de-identification, recruiting clinicians to label, and discovering at the compliance review that the provenance record nobody kept is now the thing blocking the release.

We take that layer off your roadmap and hand it back documented.

Where healthcare AI data projects stall

  • ✕Access. No route to clinical data at volume without provider relationships you don’t have.
  • ✕Compliance. De-identification done as best effort, not to a standard anyone will certify.
  • ✕Expertise. General-purpose labeling workforces that cannot read a scan or a clinical note.
  • ✕Provenance. No paper trail, so the dataset fails diligence long after it was paid for.
  • ✕Coverage. Demographically skewed data that produces a model which fails on real patients.

What we deliver

Three ways we supply healthcare AI teams

Engage us for one layer or hand over the whole data pipeline. Most teams start with a pilot on a single modality and expand once the quality holds.

A physician recording clinical notes on a patient chart
01

Healthcare data sourcing & licensing

For teams that need real clinical data and cannot spend eighteen months building provider relationships to get it.

  • De-identified EHR and clinical note corpora, scoped by specialty, geography and date range
  • Medical imaging across modalities, with linked reports where the study permits
  • Clinical audio and physician dictation for medical ASR and ambient scribe models
  • Licensing structured for commercial model training, with IP warranties and indemnity terms
  • Dataset datasheets covering source, consent basis, demographics and known gaps
Source code on a screen representing a de-identification pipeline
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De-identification & data engineering

The unglamorous layer between a hospital export and something your training pipeline can legally ingest.

  • PHI detection and removal across free text, DICOM headers, burned-in pixel data and audio
  • Safe Harbor implementation across all 18 HIPAA identifiers, or statistical Expert Determination where Safe Harbor destroys too much signal
  • Re-identification risk assessment and documented residual-risk reporting
  • HL7 v2 and FHIR normalisation, terminology mapping to SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10 and RxNorm
  • Synthetic and augmented data generation where real data is unavailable or too sensitive to move
A clinician annotating medical images at a dual-monitor workstation
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Clinical annotation & labeling

Domain judgement, not crowdsourced guesswork. Medical labeling fails on expertise long before it fails on volume.

  • Segmentation, bounding boxes, classification and measurement on DICOM studies
  • Clinical NER, entity linking, relation extraction, assertion and negation labeling
  • Medical transcription, speaker diarisation and intent labeling on clinical audio
  • Preference ranking and expert critique for clinical RLHF and model evaluation
  • Multi-pass adjudication with published inter-annotator agreement and a documented QA protocol

Coverage

Data modalities we work across

Availability varies by specialty and jurisdiction. We run a feasibility check against your specification before we commit to a volume or a date.

Clinical text & EHR

Progress notes, discharge summaries, pathology and radiology reports, structured encounter data.

Medical imaging

CT, MRI, X-ray, ultrasound, mammography, dermatology, ophthalmology and digital pathology.

Clinical audio

Physician dictation, clinician–patient encounters, telehealth consults and multilingual medical speech.

Physiological signals

ECG, EEG, continuous monitoring and wearable-derived time series with clinical context attached.

Claims & administrative

Coded claims, prior authorisation, revenue-cycle and utilisation data for payer and RCM models.

Multimodal & longitudinal

Imaging linked to reports, notes linked to outcomes, and patient journeys tracked across encounters.

Who we work with

Built for how your team buys data

A frontier lab, a seed-stage scribe company and a CRO are solving different problems with the same raw material. The engagement shape changes accordingly.

Foundation model & AI labs

Volume, provenance and defensible licensing

You need clinical data at scale and your counsel needs to know exactly where every record came from. We supply against a written data specification, deliver provenance documentation with each batch, and license on terms that survive a diligence process.

  • Bulk licensing with commercial training rights
  • Provenance and consent-basis documentation per source
  • Expert critique and preference data for clinical evaluation

Healthcare AI & digital health

Speed to a working model, without a data team

You are building clinical NLP, an ambient scribe, a triage tool or an imaging model, and data acquisition is eating the runway. We take the whole data layer — sourcing, de-identification, annotation and pipeline — so your engineers work on the model.

  • Pilot datasets sized for an early proof of signal
  • Iterative labeling that tracks your model’s failure modes
  • Cost structure that works pre-Series-B

Pharma, CRO & life sciences

Regulatory-grade rigour and audit trails

Your data work has to hold up in front of a regulator and a reviewer. We operate with documented SOPs, versioned datasets, traceable QA and the governance record that submissions and inspections require.

  • Real-world data curation and cohort construction
  • Documented SOPs, dataset versioning and audit trails
  • Controlled access with data residency options

Governance

Compliance is the product, not the paperwork

In healthcare AI, a dataset your counsel cannot clear is worth nothing, however good the labels are. Governance is designed into the engagement from the scoping call.

HIPAA

De-identification to the Safe Harbor standard across all 18 identifiers, or Expert Determination where analytic utility requires it. Business Associate Agreements where a BAA is the right instrument.

GDPR

Health data handled as a special category under Article 9, with a documented lawful basis, data minimisation by design, and transfer mechanisms for EU-origin data.

EU AI Act, Article 10

Datasets prepared for high-risk AI data-governance duties: relevance, representativeness, error examination and documented bias assessment — ahead of the 2027 and 2028 application dates.

India DPDP Act

Indian delivery operations run under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, with consent, purpose-limitation and cross-border transfer handled explicitly rather than assumed.

Consent & provenance

Every dataset ships with its lawful basis, source agreement reference and permitted-use scope recorded. If we cannot evidence how data was obtained, we do not sell it.

Security controls

Encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, segregated project environments, audited access logs, and NDAs plus confidentiality training for every annotator.

Need our security documentation and de-identification methodology for a vendor review? Request the compliance pack.

Engagement

How a data engagement runs

No data moves and no invoice is raised until you have seen a sample and your compliance team has cleared the methodology.

01

Scoping call

We map what your model actually needs: modality, volume, specialty mix, label schema, demographic coverage and the compliance regime you answer to.

02

Feasibility & sample

You get a written data specification, a feasibility assessment against real supply, and a sample batch to test against your pipeline before money moves.

03

Compliance review

Your legal and security teams review our provenance documentation, de-identification methodology and controls. We expect the scrutiny and we build for it.

04

Delivery & iteration

Production batches ship on an agreed cadence with QA metrics attached. Label schemas evolve as your model’s failure modes surface.

Why Softuvo

Why teams partner with us on data

Engineers, not a labeling desk

Softuvo has spent nine years building production software, including healthcare platforms and data integration. The pipeline, tooling and delivery infrastructure around your data is built by people who ship systems.

Clinical review in the loop

Medical labeling is a judgement task. Clinicians review the work, disagreements get adjudicated, and agreement scores are reported rather than quietly averaged away.

Compliance documented, not asserted

Every engagement produces a methodology record: how data was sourced, how PHI was removed, what residual risk remains. That document is what survives your buyer’s diligence.

Economics that fit the work

An India delivery base with senior clinical oversight means expert-reviewed annotation at a rate that does not force you to choose between quality and volume.

One partner, whole data layer

Sourcing, de-identification, annotation and engineering under one contract. Fewer vendors, one accountable party, no gaps where the handoffs used to be.

Built to keep going

Models degrade and label schemas change. Engagements are structured as an ongoing data supply relationship, not a one-off delivery that leaves you back at zero.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What types of healthcare data can Softuvo supply for AI training?

De-identified clinical text and EHR records, medical imaging across CT, MRI, X-ray, ultrasound and pathology, clinical audio and physician dictation, physiological signals such as ECG and EEG, claims and administrative data, and linked multimodal datasets. Availability depends on specialty, geography and intended use, so we run a feasibility assessment against your specification before committing to volumes.

How do you de-identify protected health information?

We work to a named standard rather than best effort. The default is the HIPAA Safe Harbor method, removing all 18 specified identifiers across free text, DICOM headers, burned-in pixel data and audio. Where Safe Harbor removes information your model genuinely needs — precise dates in a longitudinal study, for example — we use Expert Determination, where a qualified statistician certifies that re-identification risk is very small. Either way you receive documentation of the method applied and the residual risk assessment.

Is the data HIPAA compliant?

Properly de-identified data falls outside HIPAA’s definition of protected health information, which is what makes it usable for model training. Where an engagement requires us to handle identified PHI — during a de-identification project, for instance — we operate under a Business Associate Agreement with the covered entity. We will walk your compliance team through the specific arrangement for your engagement.

Can we license healthcare data for commercial foundation model training?

Yes, where the underlying source agreement permits commercial AI training, and we will tell you plainly when it does not. Licensing terms cover permitted use, derivative model rights, term and territory, and we provide provenance documentation for each source so your legal team can assess the chain of rights rather than take a warranty on faith.

Who actually performs the medical annotation?

Trained annotators working under clinical supervision, with practising radiologists, physicians and certified medical coders doing review and adjudication on specialty work. Every annotator signs an NDA and completes confidentiality and protocol training. We report inter-annotator agreement per batch so you can see label quality as a number rather than a promise.

How does this support EU AI Act compliance?

Most clinical AI falls under the EU AI Act as high-risk, which brings Article 10 data-governance duties: training, validation and test sets must be relevant, sufficiently representative, as free from errors as possible, and examined for bias. We prepare datasets against those criteria and supply the documentation — demographic composition, known gaps, bias assessment — that forms part of your technical file. Obligations begin applying from December 2027 for Annex III systems.

What does a healthcare AI data engagement cost?

It depends on modality, volume, annotation complexity and the compliance regime in scope — a single-label image classification set and an adjudicated multi-organ segmentation set are different projects at different prices. After a scoping call we provide a written specification with fixed pricing per deliverable, so you are not signing an open-ended time-and-materials arrangement.

How quickly can you deliver a pilot dataset?

Pilot batches typically move in weeks rather than months, with the variable being compliance review and source availability rather than production capacity. We would rather set a realistic date after the scoping call than quote a number here that ignores your specialty and jurisdiction.

Tell us what your model needs to learn.

Bring your data specification, or just the problem you are trying to solve. We will tell you what is realistically obtainable, under what compliance basis, and what it takes to get there.

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