Security and data

A record you may need in ten years

Medico-legal records are only useful if they are still there, unchanged, when a dispute arrives. That is the whole design.

In short

  • Hosted in India (Mumbai), encrypted in transit
  • Append-only: nothing can be edited or deleted through the app
  • Every record and recording sealed with SHA-256; one-tap verification
  • Off-site backups every 6 hours, restore drills logged
  • Your data is yours: full export at any time, and if we ever close, 90 days notice and a complete handover

Isolation

Each hospital has its own database, its own media store and its own address. A login only ever sees the hospitals it belongs to. A doctor's private practice records are never visible to a hospital.

Integrity

When a record is saved, its exact content is hashed. The recording is hashed separately. The Verify button recomputes both. If anything differs, it says so.

Access

Personal logins with PIN, lockout after repeated failures, roles that limit who can create, print or export. Every view, print and playback is written to an audit log.

Backups

Database snapshots and all recordings are copied to a separate object store every six hours and kept for 90 days. We restore from backup on a schedule to prove it works, and keep the log.

Retention

Records are kept for 10 years by default, longer where the hospital chooses. A lapsed subscription stops new recordings, never access to old ones.

Consent to record

The consent text read to the patient states that the conversation is recorded and kept as part of the medical record, in the language the patient understands.

Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act

The hospital is the Data Fiduciary; MedSaakshi is its Data Processor and acts on the hospital's instructions under a written agreement. Patient data is stored in India, used only to provide the service, and never sold or shared. A named grievance officer handles requests, and a breach-notification process is in place.

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