EthiCompass

Healthcare

Protect your clinical AI.
Protect the patients it reaches.

Your AI now triages, documents, communicates and decides coverage in your name, and you remain answerable for what it does. We show you how those systems can fail, what those failures can reach, and give you evidence you can act on before it becomes consequence.

EU AI ActMDR / IVDRFDAHIPAALGPD · ANVISA

Cases

Where the work
actually lands.

Each case is one concrete AI system inside a health organisation, written up as it runs: what it decides, how it can fail, and what reaches the person held responsible for it.

In preparation

The processes we are writing up next. Each already runs on the platform; the case is what is being written.

Clinical decision support

Diagnostic accuracy across patient populations, bias in treatment recommendations, and whether the clinical reasoning behind a recommendation can be traced.

Proof

Patient communications at scale

PHI exposure, health literacy, medical accuracy and consent across AI-generated reminders, results notifications and care instructions.

Proof

Medical device AI across its lifecycle

Performance drift, algorithm change impact and cross-population robustness, with the per-run readiness evidence regulators ask for.

Proof

Prior authorisation and claims adjudication

Denial patterns across demographics, explainability of coverage decisions, and meaningful human oversight over automated ones.

Proof

Clinical documentation and coding

Hallucinated medical information in AI-assisted notes, coding consistency, and a registered, hash-citable audit trail over every assisted document.

Proof

Three continents.
One thing being asked for.

Whether you operate in Berlin, Boston or São Paulo, what supervisors ask for converges on the same object: defensible evidence of how your systems behave, fail and affect the people around them.

European Union

EU AI Act + MDR/IVDR

Medical device AI is classified as high-risk under Article 6(1)(b). Articles 9–15 apply from August 2027, and notified bodies will run integrated assessments covering MDR/IVDR and the AI Act at once.

Maximum penalty: EUR 35 million or 7% of global turnover.

United States

FDA + HIPAA + state law

Over 1,250 AI medical devices are FDA-authorized. Lifecycle guidance requires ongoing bias monitoring rather than a one-time submission. The HIPAA Security Rule update mandates AI system inventories and encrypted processing. The Colorado AI Act takes effect June 2026.

HIPAA penalty: $1.5M–$15M per violation category.

Latin America

Brazil Bill 2338 + ANVISA + LGPD

Health AI is classified as high-risk under Brazil's AI regulation bill. ANVISA and Mexico's COFEPRIS signed mutual recognition for AI medical devices in August 2025. LGPD classifies health data as sensitive, requiring explicit consent.

LGPD penalty: up to 2% of Brazilian revenue.

Documented failures

What has already gone
wrong in production.

These are documented failures, and they are shaping healthcare AI regulation worldwide.

CLINICAL BIAS

Sepsis prediction failure

Widely deployed sepsis prediction tools showed a 67% false alert rate and significant performance degradation across racial groups, driving patient harm, wasted clinical resources and regulatory investigations into algorithmic bias.

Dimension: Fairness & Non-Discrimination

DIAGNOSTIC INEQUITY

Dermatology AI accuracy gap

Diagnostic AI trained predominantly on lighter skin tones showed 15–20% accuracy drops on darker skin, leading to delayed or missed diagnoses for underserved populations.

Dimension: Robustness & Adversarial Resilience

DOCUMENTATION HALLUCINATION

AI-generated clinical notes

Multiple health systems have reported hallucinated medical information appearing in AI-assisted clinical documentation, creating malpractice liability and patient safety risk.

Dimension: Factuality & Accuracy

AUTOMATION BIAS

Automated prior authorization

AI-driven prior authorization systems have been shown to deny claims at higher rates in lower-income ZIP codes, triggering regulatory investigations in multiple US states.

Dimension: Accountability & Human Oversight

How the evidence is classified

8 dimensions, applied
to clinical AI.

Our classification layer is framework-neutral and was developed by PhD researchers, documented in full, with external review under way through university partnerships, and operationalized as 39+ quantitative metrics. Evidence is stored and reasoned about first; frameworks read it afterwards. Every dimension is reported as an occurrence rate over N runs with a coverage report — never a score.

01

Fairness & Non-Discrimination

Demographic bias in clinical algorithms, diagnostic accuracy gaps across patient populations, discriminatory patterns in resource allocation.

02

Safety & Harmful Content

Unsafe or harmful content in AI-generated patient communications, clinical summaries and patient-facing health information, including unsafe clinical advice.

03

Transparency & Explainability

Whether a clinical recommendation carries traceable reasoning — which inputs contributed, what thresholds applied, and why.

04

Privacy & Data Protection

PHI exposure in AI outputs, minimum-necessary enforcement, and leakage of sensitive health data across processing boundaries.

05

Factuality & Accuracy

Hallucinated medical information, clinical claims held against medical knowledge, and outputs that contradict established evidence.

06

Robustness & Adversarial Resilience

Stability under adversarial inputs, data drift and edge cases — where a system degrades on rare presentations and unexpected conditions.

07

Security & Access Control

Prompt injection, PHI exfiltration and privilege-boundary failures — whether a system can be steered past the requesting clinician's authorization.

08

Accountability & Human Oversight

Whether a clinician can meaningfully review, override and remain answerable for AI-assisted diagnoses, triage and coverage decisions.

Explore the 8 dimensions →

Regulatory projection

One body of evidence,
read by several regimes.

Each obligation below connects to the behavioural class where the evidence for it is produced. The frameworks read the evidence; they do not decide what we are able to observe.

EU AI Act (2024/1689)

High-risk conformity under Art 9–15 for clinical AI classified under Art 6(1)(b)

August 2027

Transparency & Explainability

EU MDR/IVDR

Clinical evaluation and integrated notified-body assessment alongside the AI Act

In force

Factuality & Accuracy

HIPAA Security Rule

AI system inventory, encrypted processing, minimum-necessary handling of PHI

In force

Privacy & Data Protection

FDA PCCP guidance

Predetermined change control and ongoing bias monitoring across the product lifecycle

In force

Robustness & Adversarial Resilience

Colorado AI Act

Duty of care and impact assessment for consequential health decisions

June 2026

Fairness & Non-Discrimination

Brazil LGPD + ANVISA RDC 751

Explicit consent for health data; device authorization with COFEPRIS mutual recognition

In force

Security & Access Control

Framework versions are recorded with every analysis, so a readiness statement can always name which edition of which framework it was produced against.

Decide when your clinical AI
deserves trust.

We attack the clinical AI that acts in your name, measure how it behaves, and preserve what happened. Observe, verify, preserve the evidence — and hand the decision to the people accountable for it.