PDI Med Terms of Service

These Terms define the boundaries of responsibility, authority, and trust between PDI Med and its users. They minimize misuse, misinterpretation, and drift. By using PDI Med, you agree to the constraints that protect physicians and patients.

• Licensed physicians and physicians in training.
• Clinicians acting within scope of practice.
• Other users explicitly authorized by PDI Med.

Not intended for direct patient use, payor surveillance, employer monitoring, or third-party adjudication.

• PDI Med provides cognitive support, documentation assistance, de-identified pattern synthesis, and GZIN aggregate insight.
• PDI Med does not provide medical advice, prescriptive orders, legal determinations, or standards-of-care declarations.

You remain the sole decision-maker for all clinical actions.

• You retain full responsibility for patient care.
• AI outputs are informational, not directives.
• PDI Med does not replace clinical judgment or establish a physician-patient relationship.

PDI Med assists thinking; it does not automate responsibility.

• The PDI Med Vault stores clinical records encrypted under physician-controlled keys. PHI-bearing source notes are processed through a multi-layer de-identification pipeline before any structured data reaches PDI Med infrastructure; plaintext PHI is not accessible to PDI Med systems.
• Only de-identified outputs — evidence spans and committed encounter artifacts — are contributed to the GZIN network, with explicit per-encounter physician consent. The de-identification pipeline reduces PHI exposure risk; it does not provide an absolute guarantee. PDI Med layers technical controls and structural incentives to keep that risk as close to zero as architecture allows.
• PDI Med operates as a Business Associate under HIPAA. You are responsible for your own institutional policies and HIPAA obligations.

• Outputs are not patient records; they are irreversible abstractions.
• PDI Med cannot re-identify or “re-patientize” these artifacts.
• Once integrated into aggregate systems, removal may not be possible without corrupting collective validity.

• You safeguard credentials; PDI Med does not possess your decryption keys.
• Loss of access may require remapping, not recovery.
• Identity verification and remapping can occur without PHI access.

• No re-identification attempts of synthetic or aggregate data.
• No manipulation of uploads to distort collective insight.
• No automated submissions to create false consensus.
• No credential sharing or reverse engineering of safeguards.
• No surveillance, ranking, or punitive analysis.

PDI Med polices platform integrity, not clinical judgment.

• PDI Med may be used for board examination preparation. Reasoning artifacts, case structures, and session data generated in this context are Board Examiner Session Data under the Bylaws.
• Board Examiner Session Data is used exclusively for physician learning. It is never shared with certifying authorities, specialty boards, employers, payors, or any third party.
• PDI Med does not assess, score, or evaluate the quality of board preparation reasoning. Preparation sessions are not monitored for credentialing purposes.
• Clinical responsibility and examination integrity remain with the physician. PDI Med provides cognitive support — not examination coaching, answer provision, or exam simulation certified by any board.

Access may be suspended when platform integrity or security boundaries are threatened or good-faith use cannot be assumed.

• Notice, clarification, and proportional remedies when feasible.
• Emergency suspension if necessary to prevent harm.

PDI Med does not guarantee clinical outcomes, reduced litigation, documentation sufficiency, or institutional acceptance. Value depends on thoughtful, responsible use.

Terms may evolve but will not regress on privacy architecture, physician autonomy, or non-punitive design. Material changes will be posted transparently.

PDI Med exists to help physicians think more clearly and practice more safely without turning medicine into a monitored game. If that ever changes, these Terms should be treated as broken.