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Trust, Safety & Agency

Your health model belongs to you.

Health Core is built on four commitments: that you own your data outright, that agents act only within permissions you grant, that every inference is inspectable and sourced, and that the boundary between longitudinal health infrastructure and a medical system is sharp and permanent.

Ownership

Your data is yours — not ours, not an app's, not a platform's.

Health Core is personal infrastructure, not a walled garden. Your Longitudinal Health Profile is portable and exportable by design, and you retain full rights to it regardless of how you use or stop using the product.

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Portable by design

Your Longitudinal Health Profile is not coupled to any single application, device, or provider. It travels with you.

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Exportable on demand

Request a full export of your profile at any time, in a structured, human-readable format. No waiting, no friction.

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Not locked to any platform

Health Core does not hold your data hostage. You can move, mirror, or migrate your profile without negotiating with a gatekeeper.

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Deletion is real

Deleting your profile means deletion. There are no hidden retention copies, no shadow models, no deferred purge windows.

Inspectability & Provenance

The system explains what it believes, and why.

Every observation in your profile carries a record of where it came from and how confident the system is. Inferences are labelled as inferences. The system is never deliberately opaque.

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Every observation carries its source

Each entry in your profile records where it came from — which app, which agent, which integration — so you always know the chain of origin.

02

Confidence is explicit

The system records how confident it is in each inference. Low-confidence interpretations are labelled as such; they are never silently elevated to facts.

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Agents explain their reasoning

When an agent surfaces a pattern or suggestion, it explains what data it drew on and why — not just what it concluded.

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Never a black box

There is always a path to understand what the system believes about your health and why. A developer surface exposes schema behaviour, provenance, and agent outputs.

Uncertainty

Ambiguity is surfaced, never buried.

Health is inherently uncertain. Health Core treats uncertainty as a first-class property, not a defect to hide.

When a pattern is plausible but not confirmed, the system says so. When a data point conflicts with prior observations, that tension is preserved rather than silently resolved. Confidence levels are recorded alongside every inference.

The system does not present low-confidence interpretations as established fact. It does not smooth over missing data by extrapolating silently. It does not manufacture coherence at the expense of accuracy.

Where the system is uncertain, it says it is uncertain. Where data is absent, it records absence. Where interpretations conflict, it surfaces the conflict so you — and any clinician you share your profile with — can see the full picture rather than a curated summary.

Agency

You govern meaningful parts of your own model.

Health Core is designed to make you more capable — not more dependent on the system. Every meaningful action on your profile is available to you, not just to the platform.

  • Inspect
  • Correct
  • Approve
  • Export
  • Restrict
  • Delete

Inspect — view the full contents of your profile at any time, including raw observations, agent inferences, and provenance records.

Correct — flag or override any entry you believe is inaccurate. Corrections are recorded in the provenance trail, not silently overwritten.

Approve — agent actions above a configurable autonomy threshold require explicit approval before they execute.

Export — download a complete, structured copy of your profile at any time, in a format designed for both human readability and interoperability.

Restrict — limit which agents, integrations, or external systems can read or write any part of your profile.

Delete — permanently remove any entry, set of entries, or your entire profile. Deletion is real and final.

Export & deletion in practice

Illustrative — interface shown for explanation, not a production screenshot.

Decision Filter

The test every feature has to pass.

Trust is not a marketing layer — it is the filter we hold every product and engineering decision against. Before anything ships, it has to answer yes to these questions, drawn directly from our founding principles.

  1. 01

    Does it strengthen the health profile you own?

  2. 02

    Does it improve continuity across time?

  3. 03

    Does it make agent reasoning more coherent and explainable?

  4. 04

    Does it preserve your agency and consent?

  5. 05

    Does it improve provenance, confidence, or auditability?

  6. 06

    Does it keep the system modular and open?

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    Does it avoid locking you into a single app or interface?

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    Does it move Health Core toward shared infrastructure, not another silo?

Read more about the thinking behind this in our manifesto.

Compliance & Security

Built to align with the standards that protect health data.

Health data privacy is a regulatory obligation as much as an ethical one. Health Core is engineered to align with the frameworks that govern personal and patient data.

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Designed to align with GDPR principles

Data minimisation, explicit lawful basis through consent, the right to access and erasure, and genuine data portability are built into the model — not bolted on afterwards.

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Building toward HIPAA-aligned safeguards

As Health Core matures toward clinical-grade infrastructure, access controls, audit logging, and data handling are engineered toward HIPAA-aligned standards.

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Security by default

Encryption in transit and at rest, least-privilege access, and an audit trail for every read and write of your profile.

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Independent review

We intend to pursue third-party security review and certification before any general-availability release — and to publish the outcomes.

A note on status. Health Core is in private beta and under active development. The points above describe our design commitments and the standards we are working toward — not current certifications. For a detailed security overview, or to discuss compliance for your organisation, contact us at access@qedhealth.com.au.

FAQ

Common questions about data, consent, and privacy.

Short answers to the questions we hear most about ownership, consent management, and patient data rights.

Who owns the health data in Health Core?
You do. Health Core is designed so your health model belongs to you, not to any single app, device, provider, or platform. Your Longitudinal Health Profile is portable and can be exported at any time.
Can I delete or export my data?
Yes. You can inspect, correct, approve, export, restrict, and delete meaningful parts of your profile at any time. Deletion requests are honoured in full — nothing is retained in hidden copies.
Is Health Core a medical or diagnostic system?
No. Health Core is not a diagnostic or treatment system and does not provide medical advice. It helps you organise, understand, and own your health information. Medical decisions should always be made with a qualified clinician.
How does consent work for agent actions?
Agents operate within scoped permissions you explicitly grant. Higher-autonomy actions — such as preparing exports or triggering reminders — require explicit checkpoints before the system proceeds. You can review, revoke, or narrow any permission at any time.
Is Health Core HIPAA or GDPR compliant?
Health Core is in active development and is designed from the ground up to align with GDPR principles — consent as lawful basis, data minimisation, portability, and the right to erasure — and to build toward HIPAA-aligned safeguards as it matures into clinical-grade infrastructure. These describe our design commitments and the standards we are working toward, not current certifications. We intend to pursue independent review before general availability.
Non-Diagnostic Boundaries

A sharp line between infrastructure and medicine.

Health Core organises and helps you understand your own health information. It is not a diagnostic or treatment system, and it is not designed or tested to serve as one.

Important notice

Health Core is not a diagnostic or treatment system and does not provide medical advice. It helps you organise and understand your own health information. Always consult a qualified clinician for medical decisions.

  • Health Core does not diagnose or treat any condition.
  • Patterns and interpretations surfaced by agents are organisational, not clinical.
  • Nothing in Health Core substitutes for a consultation with a qualified clinician.
  • In a medical emergency, contact emergency services immediately.

See also: how Health Core works and why we built it this way.

Private beta

Own your health model from day one.

Health Core is in private beta. Early users help shape the ownership, consent, and inspectability model — and receive full access to every agency control from the start.

Request access