Health care · Halifax, NS

Private AI for clinics and health teams in Halifax

Halifax clinics, care homes and health administrators work inside Nova Scotia’s own rules. Digby answers from your documents with the passage attached, keeps stored data in Canada, and runs the models on Canadian-located hardware — so the answer is checkable and the question “where does it go” has a short reply.

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What Nova Scotia asks of a health custodian

Nova Scotia’s Personal Health Information Act sets out how health information may be collected, used and disclosed, and what safeguards custodians must maintain.

Because care is delivered across a whole province with a small central administration, the safeguards have to be understandable by the people applying them at the far end of a long drive.

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Halifax’s health reality

Nova Scotia delivers care through a single provincial health authority plus community and private providers, handling health information under the province’s own health statute.

Distance is the defining constraint: a great deal of care and administration happens hours from Halifax, and the policy still has to be applied correctly out there.

What Digby does — and what we do not claim

Digby is not a medical device, not a diagnostic tool and not clinical decision support. It does not interpret tests, triage patients or recommend treatment. It works on the paperwork around care, never on the clinical judgement itself.

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Policy grounding
ask a question about intake, consent, scheduling or billing and get the passage from your own policy manual.
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Administrative drafting
referral letters, patient-facing explanations, staff memos, drafted in plain language and reviewed by a person.
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Training material
turn a protocol into a short teaching note, or answer a new hire’s question from the document it came from.
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Reporting and planning
summarise operational data a manager pastes in, without sending patient records anywhere they should not go.

Where the data lives, and where the models run

Stored data — accounts, conversations, memory and files — sits in Canada, in AWS Canada Central (Montréal). The models that write answers run on NVIDIA GPU hardware located in Canada and operated from Canada. That second part is the one most vendors gloss: storage residency is not the same claim as inference residency, and for a Halifax clinic the difference is exactly the one a privacy review will ask about.

If the requirement is that nothing leaves infrastructure you control, Digby can be self-hosted with Docker Compose against any OpenAI-compatible model server. That is a different trade — you run it — and it is documented rather than implied.

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A sensible first month for a Halifax clinic

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One non-clinical corpus
the policy manual and staff onboarding material, in a project with access limited to the people who already read them.
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One workflow, one reviewer
pick a single recurring document type and name the person who checks every draft before it leaves.
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Confirm the boundary in writing
state that clinical questions are out of scope, and make sure the whole team has read that line.

Other Canadian cities

Halifax firms and organisations often work across provincial lines, and the statute changes at the border. The same health care material, set up for the next province over:

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Frequently asked questions

What does Nova Scotia’s PHIA require of a health custodian?

PHIA governs collection, use and disclosure of health information and requires custodians to maintain reasonable safeguards. Any new system touching that information should be assessed within the custodian’s existing process.

Can Digby help a rural Nova Scotia site apply the same policy as Halifax?

That is the practical case for it: the policy is in the project, so a site hours from the capital gets the same answer with the same source passage.

What does Digby cost for a Halifax clinic?

Free to start, billed in Canadian dollars: the entry point is CAD $0 and no account is needed to begin. For larger engagements — more seats, more volume or a dedicated deployment — pricing is set with you rather than listed here, so contact us and a person replies with a written number. Heavier features such as deep research have daily limits.