Automatic detection of personal data

Aram Zegerius
Technical conscienceWe know how important privacy is in healthcare. That's why we've made Ask Aletta even smarter. With a new feature that helps you prevent accidentally sharing personal data. Over the past months this feature was already running behind the scenes, and from today it's visible to all users.
The problem
As a healthcare professional, you copy and paste dozens of times a day. From EHR to letter, from report to email, from note to search query. It's efficient and inevitable.
But in that hectic pace, it can happen: you accidentally send personal data in a question to an AI tool, such as a name or date of birth. With tools like ChatGPT, especially with a free subscription, that information disappears into a black box. You don't know where it goes and whether it will later be used in training the next version of ChatGPT.
Our solution
Ask Aletta does this differently:
We automatically check every question for personal data before it is sent. This way we proactively help our users use AI safely. We do this with our own detection model, running entirely on our own hardware in the Netherlands. No external parties. No third-party cloud services.
Do we detect something? Then you as a user immediately receive a notification. With one click you anonymize the sensitive data and your search query can still be executed safely.
Conclusion
In the hectic pace of daily practice, a mistake is quickly made. We help you prevent them.
Your patient data stays where it belongs. Within your organization. Not in a black box.