At Sprint Medical, safeguarding the privacy, confidentiality, and integrity of data is central to our mission to secure every patient’s healthiest and wealthiest future. We are building the world’s most comprehensive real-world clinical data and AI research ecosystem. Our mandate is to actively advance the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3) by promoting global health equity through secure, unbiased healthcare AI innovation.
Our security framework is strictly governed by the immutable first principles of data governance:
- The Origin Principle (Patient Sovereignty): Raw healthcare data remains the sovereign property of the patient, requiring explicit, informed consent and local ethics approval prior to processing.
- The Transmutation Principle (Anonymization): Identity is mathematically destroyed at the absolute edge (the local facility), ensuring it legally ceases to be Personal Data and removing cross-border friction.
- The Provenance Principle (Verifiable Trust): Every dataset carries an immutable system audit trail proving its ethical origin and mathematical purity.
This Data Security Policy describes the technical, administrative, and organizational measures implemented by Sprint Medical. It addresses our two distinct operational tracks:
- Track A (Clinical & Telehealth Services): Where Sprint Medical acts as a Data Fiduciary, collecting and securing identifiable Personal Information and Protected Health Information (PHI) for direct patient care.
- Track B (Global AI Research Execution): Where Sprint Medical acts strictly as a Data Processor operating a "True Edge-Anonymization" pipeline. In this track, data is mathematically stripped of identity to create secure, non-personal data for international research, actively shifting legal liability away from the central repository.
Rather than simply securing data in the cloud, Sprint Medical utilizes a Zero-Key edge-processing architecture. We apply irreversible transmutation at the local edge, meaning the client-side membrane irreversibly purges all Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) before data ever hits central servers.
- Terminology Clarification: While our technical Glass Box Pipeline executes de-identification processes based on technical standards like DICOM Supplement 142, the absolute legal outcome of this pipeline is irreversible True Edge-Anonymization. No lookup table, secure key, or code is retained by Sprint Medical or our partners that could allow the re-identification of the data once processed.
Our Glass Box Pipeline includes:
- Metadata Scrubbing: Implementation of the DICOM Supplement 142 standard to systematically remove, replace, or jitter all direct and indirect identifiers.
- Pixel-Level Redaction: Deployment of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to detect and irreversibly black out burned-in PHI on image pixels (e.g., ultrasound overlays).
Sprint Medical ensures that security does not destroy the clinical utility of the data. We enforce the following structural standards:
- Clinical Fluency Engine: Raw DICOM files are structurally normalized into AI-ready NIfTI/JSON formats and mapped to global medical ontologies (OMOP, ICD, SNOMED CT) to ensure absolute HL7/FHIR compatibility.
- Encryption and Data Clean Rooms: All data is encrypted in transit and at rest using industry-standard cryptographic protections. Anonymized research datasets are stored exclusively on secure Sovereign Indian cloud infrastructure, with international researchers granted purpose-bound, IP-allowlisted remote computational access.
Sprint Medical applies structured, role-based controls to all data used for analytics, annotation, and machine learning. Operational integrity is guaranteed by our human architecture:
- Data Originators : Frontline medical facilities are contractually bound via Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) to secure compliant patient consent featuring explicit waivers of retrospective withdrawal rights.
- Data Stewards : Dedicated compliance auditors conduct visual and programmatic verification of anonymization logs to guarantee zero-leakage of PHI before datasets are released.
- Central Clinical Command: Senior physicians and domain experts oversee the pipeline to guarantee verifiable inter-review agreement and perfect Patient Journey Structuring (PJS) standards.
- Authorized Consumers : Vetted, SDG 3-aligned research institutions are granted purpose-bound access under absolute anti-reidentification agreements.
Sprint Medical strictly embeds consent capture into the user interface to ensure absolute "Privacy by Design". We operationalize transparency across all patient touchpoints:
- Online Consultation Flow: Patients must complete a mandatory checkbox acknowledging the Sprint Medical Privacy Policy, followed by a separate explicit acknowledgment consenting to medical consultation and healthcare operations.
- Digital Intake (EHR) & Walk-in Clinics: Patients utilize a digital intake form containing a time-stamped submission button that acknowledges informed consent for treatment and receipt of the Privacy Policy.
- Prescriptions: All digital and physical prescriptions feature a direct footer link to the Sprint Medical Privacy Policy.
- Anonymized Data Disclosure: Disclosures regarding the use of irreversibly anonymized or aggregated data for healthcare analytics and AI research are maintained and detailed exclusively within the Privacy Policy.
To ensure absolute provenance, traceability, and compliance with the DPDP Rules 2025, Sprint Medical maintains rigorous auditing mechanisms:
- Immutable Provenance Logs: Our system automatically generates tamper-evident Sanitization and Provenance Logs to prove the ethical origin and mathematical purity of datasets.
- One-Year Retention: In strict compliance with DPDP Rules 2025, all access logs, authentication records, anonymization logs, and associated traffic data are securely retained for a minimum period of one year to support internal audits and Data Protection Board investigations.
Sprint Medical maintains aggressive Incident Response procedures to detect and mitigate unauthorized access. Under the DPDPA Rules 2025, we enforce the following mandatory breach protocol:
- Immediate Intimation: Upon becoming aware of a personal data breach, Sprint Medical will notify the Data Protection Board of India and the affected Data Principals without delay.
- 72-Hour Detailed Report: A comprehensive report detailing the breach's nature, impact, mitigation measures, and remedial steps will be submitted to the Board within 72 hours of discovery.
Our edge-anonymization architecture is specifically engineered to align with, and legally navigate, global data protection frameworks.
- India (DPDPA 2023): Edge-anonymization converts the information from Personal Data before transit, seamlessly honoring strict cross-border transfer constraints.
- European Union (GDPR & EU AI Act): Our architecture circumvents Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for cross-border transfers, while our provenance logs proactively satisfy the EU AI Act's transparency demands.
- United States (HIPAA): The zero-key pipeline adheres to Safe Harbor standards by mathematically purging all 18 mandated identifiers prior to data aggregation.
- Switzerland (FADP & HRA): Data is legally classified as completely anonymized prior to entering the jurisdiction, exempting research partners from complex algorithmic privacy hardening requirements.
- Singapore (PDPA & HBRA): The architecture falls outside strict secondary tracking requirements due to the zero possibility of re-identification.
While Sprint Medical implements highly advanced, zero-trust technical and organizational measures designed to protect data, no system of transmission or storage is entirely invulnerable. Sprint Medical continually evaluates, audits, and upgrades its security posture to defend against evolving threats, ensuring we remain at the forefront of global healthcare data security and ethical AI governance.