Aidence develops and provides software solutions, based on Artificial Intelligence, to support healthcare providers with their diagnostic procedures, which include the automated diagnostic evaluation of medical images for identification and evaluation of abnormalities. These services require hospitals to send medical images to the servers of Aidence (either a server placed within the hospital or to a cloud server). Prior to sending medical images to Aidence servers, these images are required to be completely stripped from any patient identifiable information (e.g. name, patient number, date of birth, and so on). As a result Aidence does not receive, process or has direct access to any personal identifiable data which can be used to link medical images to an individual person.
In order to further safeguard medical images processed by Aidence, Aidence has installed an Information Security Management System according to the ISO 27001 management standard (EN-ISO / IEC 27001:2013 Information technology - Information Security Management Systems - Requirements) and its certification is expected in October 2018. Aidence already has implemented relevant technical and organizational measures in line with the requirements of the ISO 27001 standard and as required by law to safeguard the information processed pertaining to the Services provided by Aidence.
As Information Security and handling of medical images requires a high level of protection, Aidence is continuously reviewing its Information Security Management System and is implementing security measures where necessary to minimize risks related to handling of information.
As such Aidence implements:
Medical images are stored by default for 3 days on Aidence servers, before being fully erased, unless specified differently by the healthcare provider. The purpose of the 3 days data retention is for support purposes, to investigate potential bugs in odd system behaviour. Under no circumstances medical images are retained for any other purpose. Aidence does not retain back-ups thereof.
You will be able to download a copy of our Information Security Management System here once it is available.
Should your healthcare provider work together with Aidence, and do you have any questions as to how your medical image(s) is (are) handled? Please contact your healthcare provider directly, they should be able to answer any question you may have. Should you have any request with regards to access, rectification, deletion, restrictions for processing, portability of your information, we also ask of you to contact your healthcare provider. Aidence does not have access to any identifiable patient data and therefore is unable to link any image we process to an individual person.
Should you have a general enquiry as to how Aidence treats medical images, please feel free to get in touch with our Security Officer, Leon Doorn.