Clinical safety, privacy, and governance
ClinIQ Ireland is built for qualified healthcare professionals. This page explains how we approach safety, de-identification, data handling, and clinical governance.
Not a diagnostic or treatment tool
ClinIQ does not diagnose, treat, or replace clinical judgement, examination, or professional responsibility. Every answer includes a clinical safety disclaimer. You remain responsible for all clinical decisions.
De-identification prompts
Before each submission, we run heuristic checks for common Irish identifiers (PPS numbers, Eircodes, phone numbers, obvious dates of birth, MRN-like strings, emails) and prompt you to remove anything that looks identifiable. These checks are best-effort and do not reliably detect names. You remain responsible for ensuring no patient identifiers — including names, faces in photos, and clinical context that could re-identify a patient — are entered.
Data handling
- • Questions and answers are stored per-user and protected by Row Level Security.
- • You cannot see other users’ questions or answers.
- • Admins can access aggregated usage data for governance and quality review only.
- • We do not sell or share clinical data with third parties.
- • AI processing is performed via a secure gateway; no OpenAI API keys are exposed in frontend code.
Clinical governance
- • Every answer includes a mandatory clinical safety disclaimer.
- • Red-flag prompts and escalation considerations are highlighted on every answer.
- • Irish healthcare context (HSE, HIQA, IMC, CORU) is included where relevant.
- • Source citations are provided in Research Mode for traceability.
- • Scope-of-practice cautions are included to prevent acting outside competence.
Contact
For safety concerns, governance questions, or to report an issue, contact us atinfo@cliniq.ie.