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A Totalinfo AI+IP demonstration

iPriorAI

Imaging Queue Intelligence · Decision-support and evidence for service planning, commissioning evidence and rights assessment · HSC Northern Ireland

No patient data · No images · Not a medical device · No per-patient output · No clinical claim · No synthetic clinical records

What iPriorAI is

A decision-support and evidence tool that answers, with published evidence and no patient data, the questions Northern Ireland's imaging AI programme currently has no tool for — starting with the one nobody asks: can you use the data on the machines?

Northern Ireland's imaging digitisation has gone well. All five HSC trusts sit on one regional imaging platform (NIPACS+), a £130m programme running to at least 2032. Very few health systems in these islands can integrate a clinical AI tool once and have it reach every acute site. That regional platform is an asset of real strategic and commercial value — and assets of real value are worth establishing formal title to.
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Open CT collections in the register
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of recorded AI+IP rights positions are contractually silent
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governance steps open before any work touches a real scan

Two questions sit underneath every imaging AI deployment

Upstream: what was the model trained on?

Was that lawful for commercial use? The most widely used open CT collections carrying expert radiologist input are restricted to non-commercial research. A supplier warranty that it holds “all necessary rights” is a contractual promise, not evidence. Can the supplier evidence its training-data provenance and commercial licence position on request — and what happens to HSC's service if it cannot?

Downstream: who owns what HSC creates?

When HSC hosts a model, contributes images to validation, has its consultants annotate cases, or generates real-world performance evidence on NI patients, value is created: tuned weights, annotations, local validation evidence, publication rights. On current market practice that value accrues to the supplier by default rather than by decision.

Audit AI rights before they become a problem. Most data rights are not lost in a dispute — they are silently given away at signature, by silence, long before anyone needs the data.

What iPriorAI does not do

  • We are not clinicians and give no clinical advice. Clinical judgement belongs to a named clinical sponsor and to reporting clinicians involved from the start.
  • We do not build machine-learning models. Certified products exist; the question is what HSC owns and is permitted to do.
  • We do not work with person-level images or records outside a lawful access route. Nothing here requires access to any patient data at all.
  • We do not create synthetic clinical data.
  • We are independent of imaging AI vendors: no reseller, referral or revenue-share arrangement with any supplier of imaging AI.

The modules

Dataset Register — open CT collections, expert input, verified licence terms. Rights Register — the rights position per vendor class and AI artefact class, with the gap list and model contract clauses. Queue Simulator — what reprioritising the reporting queue would do, benefit and cost shown together. Evidence Library — every number traced to Published, Derived or Assumption. Governance & Regulation — the NI route, every step open. Export — a dated brief carrying the boundaries and the controlled AI System definition.