Industry solutions · Healthcare & Life Sciences

Data, AI, and automation
for healthcare and life sciences.

We help research and healthcare organizations automate, build, and secure Trusted Research Environments, establish AI and data governance, and turn sensitive data into usable insight — delivered as engineering services and scoped to your environment.

A solutions area, not a packaged product. Work here is delivered through Secure Cloud's Build, Automate, and Secure services and scoped to each organization's data, systems, and obligations.

Trusted Research Environments

Automate, build, and secure your Trusted Research Environment

A Trusted Research Environment (TRE) lets approved researchers analyze sensitive data without it leaving a controlled setting. We help you establish one, run it efficiently, and show it meets the standards your data providers, funders, and ethics bodies expect.

  • Automate

    Run your TRE efficiently

    Automate access requests and approvals, researcher onboarding, project provisioning, and data ingress and egress reviews — with a person in the loop wherever a decision matters.

  • Build

    Establish or extend your TRE

    Design and build secure analysis workspaces, data pipelines and linkage, and the approved tools researchers need — including governed AI — inside a controlled environment.

  • Secure

    Protect the data and prove it

    Identity and access controls, audit logging, output checking, monitoring, and security assessments, so sensitive data stays protected and every action is traceable.

Secure · Governance

AI & Data Governance

Establish a governance framework and practical guidelines for how data and AI are used in research — designed around recognized principles such as the Five Safes and your regulatory and contractual obligations.

  • Data access, use, and sharing policies
  • AI acceptable-use and model-evaluation guidelines
  • Roles, responsibilities, and approval workflows
  • Records and evidence showing the rules are followed

Secure · Assurance

TRE accreditation readiness

Prepare for and work through your TRE accreditation process, so your environment meets the standard you're working toward — and stays there.

  • Gap assessment against the standard you're working toward
  • Prioritized remediation plan
  • Policies, procedures, and evidence prepared for review
  • Support through assessment, findings, and renewal

We help you prepare and evidence your controls; accreditation decisions are made by the accrediting body.

Discuss your TRE

Capabilities

What we help with

  • Build

    Scientific NLP pipelines

    Extract, classify, and structure information from unstructured scientific and research text so it can be searched, analyzed, and reused.

  • Automate

    Research workflow automation

    Remove repetitive steps from intake, document handling, data preparation, and hand-offs between teams and systems.

  • Build · Automate

    GenAI & agentic applications

    AI applications that search, summarize, and draft against your own content — scoped to a defined workflow, with human review built in.

  • Build

    Data engineering

    Pipelines, integrations, and data models that move information reliably between the systems your teams already use.

  • Secure

    Secure AI applications

    Access controls, auditability, and data-handling rules designed in from the start for work involving sensitive data.

  • Build · Secure

    Enterprise AI implementations

    Taking AI from a promising pilot to a governed, supported application that fits your environment and operating model.

How it maps

Grow. Automate. Build. Secure. — applied

Automate

Research & TRE workflow automation

Automate Trusted Research Environment access requests, project provisioning, and data ingress and egress reviews, plus repetitive research workflows — with human review designed in where decisions matter.

Build

Trusted Research Environments

Establish or extend a TRE: secure analysis workspaces, data pipelines and linkage, and approved tools — including governed AI — inside a controlled environment.

Build

Scientific NLP pipelines & data engineering

Pipelines that turn unstructured scientific and research text into structured, usable data, and the data engineering to move it reliably between systems.

Build

GenAI & agentic applications

Enterprise AI applications that search, summarize, classify, and draft against your own content — scoped to a defined workflow and evaluated before rollout.

Secure

AI & data governance and TRE accreditation readiness

Access controls and auditability designed in, a governance framework with practical guidelines for data and AI use, and support preparing for and working through TRE accreditation.

Working with sensitive data

Governed by design

AI and automation in healthcare and research need clear boundaries. We build them into the design rather than adding them later.

  • Human review wherever AI output affects a decision
  • Evaluation against agreed criteria before rollout
  • Data-handling and access rules defined during design
  • Clear documentation of what the system does and doesn't do

We help you design to the regulatory and contractual requirements you're accountable for. We don't certify compliance with HIPAA or any other framework — certification and attestation come from qualified third parties.

Trusted Research Environment questions

What is a Trusted Research Environment (TRE)?
A Trusted Research Environment is a secure computing environment where approved researchers can analyze sensitive data — such as health or clinical research data — without the data leaving a controlled setting. Access, analysis, and outputs are governed and audited.
Can you build a new TRE, or improve one we already have?
Both. We can assess an existing environment and improve how it's automated, secured, and governed, or design and build a new one around your data, researchers, and obligations.
Does Secure Cloud accredit Trusted Research Environments?
No. We help you prepare for and work through your accreditation process — gap assessment, remediation, policies, and evidence — so your TRE meets the standard you're working toward. The accreditation decision is made by the accrediting body.
What does an AI & Data Governance engagement include?
A governance framework and practical guidelines your teams can follow: data access and use policies, AI acceptable-use and model-evaluation guidelines, roles and approval workflows, and the records that show the rules are followed. We design it around recognized principles such as the Five Safes and your own regulatory and contractual obligations.

What challenge can we help you solve?

Tell us about your research environment, the data, and what's getting in the way. We'll help identify the right place to start.