Healthcare & Life Sciences

HIPAA-Compliant AI for Healthcare

Process patient data with AI while maintaining full HIPAA compliance. Automatic PHI detection, tokenization, and Safe Harbor de-identification.

The challenge

Without protection

  • PHI exposed to AI model training data
  • HIPAA violations with potential $50K+ fines per record
  • Patient names, DOBs, SSNs in application logs
  • Manual redaction = human error + compliance risk

With Blindfold

  • Automatic PHI tokenization before AI processing
  • HIPAA Safe Harbor de-identification compliance
  • Zero PHI retention — processed in RAM only
  • 2-line integration with existing healthcare systems

Common use cases

Clinical Documentation

Use AI to generate clinical notes, discharge summaries, and treatment plans without exposing patient PHI.

Patient Support

AI-powered chatbots and support systems that handle patient inquiries while maintaining HIPAA compliance.

Medical Research

Analyze patient data with AI while ensuring de-identification for research and analytics purposes.

HIPAA Safe Harbor compliance

Blindfold automatically detects and protects all 18 HIPAA PHI identifiers.

NamesAddressesDates (birth, admission, discharge, death)Phone numbersEmail addressesSSNMedical record numbersHealth plan numbersAccount numbersCertificate/license numbersVehicle identifiersDevice identifiersBiometric identifiersFull-face photosIP addressesURLsFax numbersAny unique identifying number

Integration example

python
from blindfold import Blindfold

client = Blindfold(api_key="...")

# Patient data with PHI
note = """
Patient: Sarah Johnson
DOB: 1985-03-15
SSN: 123-45-6789
Diagnosis: Type 2 Diabetes
Email: sarah.j@email.com
"""

# Tokenize PHI automatically
safe = client.tokenize(note)

# Send to AI safely
from openai import OpenAI
response = OpenAI().chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": f"Summarize: {safe.text}"}]
)

# Restore original PHI in the response
result = client.detokenize(response.choices[0].message.content, safe.mapping)