Viewing the Canadian model

Sovereign by design, enterprise by default

Publicly stewarded care, province by province.

The top tier of the stack is a province-governed hub, aligned to the authorities that already hold accountability for patient information. Institutions keep custody of that data locally and contribute de-identified, governed data upward only when authorized, never automatically, never to a third party.

Engineered for the standards Canadian healthcare runs on

  • HL7 FHIR
  • SNOMED CT
  • LOINC
  • ICD-10-CA
  • Drug identification numbers (DIN)

Sovereign by design, enterprise by default

Tiers in Canada

Bedside · unit · hospital · province

04 / Province

Province-governed AI hub

A sovereign hub serving the health authorities of one province, governed under provincial health-information law and interconnect-ready if national federation is ever required.

03 / Hospital

Health authority and hospital infrastructure

Compute inside the facility, operated by the authority's existing technology teams on a segmented network with no inbound internet exposure.

02 / Unit

Unit and department nodes

Local nodes running small and large language models we deploy and govern, sized to a clinical unit or department. Compact workstations and rack nodes rather than construction projects.

01 / Bedside

Edge AI at the point of care

Sub-second analysis at the bed space, with device-data gateways feeding the unit tier.

Point of care

Governance

Designed for the Canadian legal environment

  • Designed to align with PIPEDA and provincial health-information acts
  • Privacy-impact-assessment support as part of the deployment package
  • Data residency in Canada, with processing inside the institution
  • Bilingual (English/French) content pathway where clinical content is served
  • Health-authority-held keys, policies, and audit records

Procurement reality

One unit first, then the authority

  • A scoped clinical use case in a single unit, governed from day one
  • Evaluation against the site's own criteria before any expansion
  • Institutional infrastructure economics rather than per-user pricing
  • Expansion by invitation, on the authority's timeline

Governance checklist

How a Canadian deployment is governed

The four areas your privacy, security, and clinical teams review first. Bring this to a technical briefing and mark it against your authority’s own criteria.

Authority

A public health authority is legally accountable for the patient information and for the system that touches it.

  • Named accountable executive and clinical sponsor inside the authority
  • Authority-approved use case, scoped to one unit before anything expands
  • Provincial privacy office engaged before the first clinical question
  • Privacy-impact-assessment support supplied as part of the deployment package

Residency and processing

Patient information stays with the organization legally responsible for it; no third-party cloud service processes it.

  • Compute runs on premises, inside the authority's network boundary
  • Data residency in Canada, with no egress for clinical processing
  • Provincial contribution only when authorized, de-identified, and governed, never automatic
  • Designed to align with PIPEDA and provincial health-information acts

Identity and access

The authority's existing identity system remains the single source of truth for who may see what.

  • SSO/SAML against the authority's identity provider
  • Role-based access mapped to existing clinical roles
  • Encryption at rest and in transit, with authority-held keys
  • Access reviews run on the authority's own cycle

Clinical oversight

Clinicians decide; the system informs. No workflow expands without evidence reviewed by the site.

  • Shadow-mode first, observing and logging only, before any workflow change
  • No autonomous diagnosis, and clinician oversight at every step
  • Complete audit trail on every interaction, held by the authority
  • Bilingual (English/French) content pathway where clinical content is served
  • Expansion by invitation, on the authority's timeline

Why this shape

Public stewardship sets the boundaries

01 / Local by default

Patient information stays with the organization legally responsible for it. Clinical AI responses are generated inside the institution.

02 / Provincial when authorized

De-identified, governed contributions support model development under provincial authority, never as an automatic transfer.

03 / National when required

The architecture is interconnect-ready, so provincial capacity can join a national fabric without redesign.

04 / No third-party control

No outside operator, custodian, key-holder, or licensor controls the system. Hardware runs on premises under institutional control.

Where to start

Products, as they land in a Canadian health authority

SALVEA.

The hospital’s control layer for AI: one governed runtime for every assistant, agent, and workflow, deployed single-tenant inside the institution’s boundary: zero data egress, the clinician’s final say.

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TRIMPACT

The bedside critical-care platform, deployed inside the health authority's network with keys, policies, and audit held locally.

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CELSUS

Governed clinical reference with a bilingual (English/French) content pathway and pharmacy-controlled content per authority.

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CECI

Grounded answering over the authority's approved library, with a citation on every answer and no source found when the library is silent.

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MINIM

Ambient documentation drafted on authority compute, signed by a clinician before anything reaches the record.

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FIGURA

Contact-free bedside sensing as geometry only, with no likeness produced and no imagery stored inside the authority.

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CHICKADEE

The family app, keeping families connected to their baby's journey across the admission.

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