A HIPAA compliant PII protector to protect medical records locally before AI processing. Our 100% local browser engine ensures zero PHI exposure — HIPAA Safe. Includes Flat-rate TEAMS pricing and Zero-server architecture.
Ilya SibiryakovPrivacy Architect
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AI Summary / Key Takeaways
Verified Zero-Trust Logic
"PrivacyScrubber provides the essential de-identification layer for Medical professionals using generative AI. By sanitizing sensitive identifiers locally, we ensure absolute data sovereignty without sacrificing the power of LLM reasoning."
Paste real Medical data into ChatGPT — only scrubbed tokens reach the model. Names, IDs, and emails stay on your machine.
Works offline: disconnect the network mid-session and it keeps running. Zero cloud dependency.
Your AI gets full context. Your clients' real identities never leave your browser tab.
Enterprise-Grade AI Privacy
Add custom redaction rules and priority support with PRO.
Watch PrivacyScrubber's local engine transform sensitive Medical data instantly in your browser, without any API calls.
Automated Detection Classes:
Patient NamesMedical Record Numbers (MRN)Dates of Birth (DOB)Clinical Diagnoses & SymptomsHealth Insurance Plan IDs
100% Client-Side Execution
Wasm_Engine
CLINICAL NOTE > Patient: Sarah Mitchell, DOB: 07/22/1974
MRN: MRN-00482901 | Insurance: BCBS-ID-774422
Dx: Type 2 Diabetes. Referred to Dr. Alan Patel.
CLINICAL NOTE > Patient: [NAME_1], DOB: [DATE_1]
MRN: [MRN_1] | Insurance: [ID_1]
Dx: Type 2 Diabetes. Referred to Dr. [NAME_2].
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Sarah M.
07/22/1974
MRN-00482
BCBS-ID-77
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The Zero-Trust Imperative: Achieve HIPAA compliance in your AI workflows without purchasing expensive Enterprise LLM licenses. PrivacyScrubber ensures you can leverage GenAI safely by neutralizing risks 100% offline in your browser.
What Medical Professionals Send to AI — and What They Should Be Sending Instead
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Addressing Protect Medical Records for AI Safely dictates how modern healthcare organizations deploy AI. Paste-handling records into ChatGPT, clinical decision support AI, and AI-assisted documentation platforms without input filtering violates HIPAA compliance rules. Our medical AI privacy guides provides the blueprint for maintaining the medical boundary, resolving exposing Protected Health Information (PHI) to third-party AI servers, which constitutes a HIPAA breach and carries penalties up to $1.9M per violation category before any cloud API is called.
Every clinical note or file uploaded to generative AI platforms without HIPAA-compliant redaction represents a potential violation. Standard 'do not train' flags are insufficient to protect patient data from being logged on third-party servers. For clinicians, nurses, medical researchers, and healthcare administrators, managing this input stream is critical. A HIPAA compliant PII protector to protect medical records locally before AI processing. Our 100% local browser engine ensures zero PHI exposure — HIPAA Safe. Includes Flat-rate TEAMS pricing and Zero-server architecture.
Why Medical Compliance Teams Flag Unmasked AI Prompts
The laws governing medical records are clear: HIPAA Privacy Rule, HIPAA Security Rule, and the Common Rule (45 CFR 46) for research involving human subjects. Yet, reducing administrative burden requires using AI efficiency. Resolving this paradox means implementing the standards in how to de-identify clinical notes for ai to ensure that clinical records are sanitized before external transit. Securing the input stream directly in browser memory forms the baseline of compliance without exposing records to cloud-based systems.
PrivacyScrubber secures the browser text box through local Zero-Trust Data Sanitization, utilizing both a copy-paste web workspace and the automated PrivacyScrubber Chrome Extension.
How to Use AI on Real Medical Data — Without Sending a Single Real Name
PrivacyScrubber secures the browser text box through local Zero-Trust Data Sanitization, utilizing both a copy-paste web workspace and the automated PrivacyScrubber Chrome Extension. By running local NER, the tool replaces high-risk text elements with secure placeholders (e.g., [PHONE_1]) before cloud transmission. This aligns with standard procedures for HIPAA-compliant ChatGPT workflows, ensuring the AI receives only clean, non-PII context. The Chrome Extension places an intuitive protection button inside ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to automate redaction and restore original text on the fly. By executing Named Entity Recognition entirely in local memory, PrivacyScrubber preserves the usefulness of ChatGPT, clinical decision support AI, and AI-assisted documentation platforms for production workflows without introducing external risk.
Our offline-first architecture is verifiable via the Airplane Mode Standard. Turn off your Wi-Fi and redact clinical text to prove that no outbound network requests occur. This satisfies the safety rules in offline compliance auditing.
Enterprise Grade Redaction Controls
Need to process complex formats or nested documentation? While plain text can be pasted into the free tier, sanitizing clinical records or financial briefs requires the PRO offline OCR engine (running 100% locally in the browser). If your team handles custom database patterns, you can define unlimited regex rules under PRO, or secure your entire workforce by pushing global rule registries via Chrome MDM policy settings under TEAMS.
The technical safeguard for confidential AI prompts relies on intercepting sensitive strings before they cross the local network interface. By replacing actual values with deterministic placeholders (e.g., [NAME_1], [ID_2]), the utility ensures that external APIs only receive anonymized instruction logic. When integrating this system into daily workflows, the threat of unintended leakage is minimized to near zero, maintaining the integrity of all data channels.
Verification Protocol
Scan prompt text for explicit identifiers including names, emails, and credentials.
Execute client-side regex rules to sanitize variables before network handoff.
Verify that the tab-isolated session map remains volatile in local memory.
Run a network audit via Chrome DevTools to confirm zero external telemetry.
Parser Specifications
Encryption Algorithm
XChaCha20-Poly1305 (Argon2id)
Detection Method
Context-Aware Regex + NER (99.4% Accuracy)
Data Egress Rule
Zero-Server Egress (Airplane Mode Verifiable)
Classification Standard
Enhanced Privacy Guard
Associated Threat Level
Critical (Compliance Breach)
Instant Simulation
Protect Medical Records for AI Safely Sanitizer
Watch our zero-trust engine neutralize sensitive identifiers 100% locally. No data ever leaves your device.
Local processing 0 Server logs
ZTDS_ENGINE_V1.5.0
PROMPT INPUT > Review application access logs for user Richard Branson (richard@branson.co.uk), phone number: 555-0111.
PROMPT INPUT > Review application access logs for user [NAME_1] ([EMAIL_1]), phone number: [PHONE_1].
Medical Detection Profile
Our zero-trust engine is pre-hardened for Medical workflows, automatically identifying and tokenizing the following parameters 100% locally.
PATIENT_NAME
Active Protection
MRN
Active Protection
DOB
Active Protection
DIAGNOSIS
Active Protection
INSURANCE_ID
Active Protection
Zero-Trust Architecture
PrivacyScrubber operates entirely on your device. Unlike other platforms, our local PII masking engine never transmits your sensitive prompts or documents to external servers. All detection and restoration happens in your computer's local RAM.
No Backend Connection: Zero API calls, zero tracking, zero logs.
Temporary Memory: Your data exists only for the duration of your tab's life.
Verification Ready: Built for professionals who need to audit their security layer with offline compliance auditing.
Hardware-Level Verification
We encourage you to audit our zero-trust claims directly in your browser using the Airplane Mode Test:
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Open your browser's Network Monitor before you start scrubbing.
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Switch to Airplane Mode (physical or simulated) and protect your text.
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Verify that no data packets ever leave your machine.
ChatGPT & Enterprise LLMs Integration
How to Protect Data for Protect Medical Records for AI Safely
PrivacyScrubber operates entirely client-side. Whether using the copy-paste dashboard or the browser extension, your sensitive records stay on your local device. Follow these instructions to safely use ChatGPT & Enterprise LLMs:
1 Method A: Zero-Trust Web Workspace (Copy-Paste)
Best for manual prompt sanitization without installing plugins:
Open the PrivacyScrubber Web App dashboard in your browser.
Paste the raw prompt or document text containing sensitive customer, employee, or proprietary identifiers.
Click Protect PII. Sensitive data is instantly swapped for secure placeholders (e.g., [NAME_1]).
Submit the sanitized prompt to ChatGPT & Enterprise LLMs.
Paste the AI's answer into the Reveal Originals box to instantly restore the original values.
For automated, inline de-identification within chat interfaces:
Install the free PrivacyScrubber Chrome Extension from the Web Store.
Navigate to your AI chat interface. A PrivacyScrubber shield button will appear inline.
Paste your raw prompt. Click the shield button to sanitize all identifiers instantly in-place.
Send the prompt to the AI chatbot.
The extension automatically intercepts and detokenizes the response, displaying raw values to you.
Local Redaction & Risk Matrix for Medical
Detection Entity
Token Placeholder
Risk Level
Security Action
Patient Names
[PATIENT_NAME]
Critical (HIPAA PHI leak)
NLP/NER name isolation
Medical Record Numbers (MRN)
[MRN]
Critical (HIPAA Safe Harbor violation)
[MRN_N] tokenization
Dates of Birth (DOB)
[DOB]
High (Re-identification hazard)
ISO/SEPA date masking
Clinical Diagnoses & Symptoms
[DIAGNOSIS]
High (Protected Health Info leak)
Medical lexicon filter
Health Insurance Plan IDs
[INSURANCE_ID]
Critical (HIPAA PHI violation)
[ID_N] local token
VERIFIABLE WORKFLOW
From Raw Medical Data to Clean AI Prompt
3 Steps, 30 Seconds, Zero Server Hops.
Open PrivacyScrubber or the Chrome Extension. Paste your raw prompt or document text. What reaches ChatGPT looks like this: [NAME_1][EMAIL_1]. Your original data stays local the entire time.
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Paste Your Real Data
Paste your actual prompt or document text into PrivacyScrubber — or click the shield icon directly inside ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. No copy-paste workaround. No second tab. It sits right where you already work.
Automated Detection Classes:
[PATIENT_NAME][MRN][DOB][DIAGNOSIS][INSURANCE_ID]
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Names Out, Tokens In — Locally
The engine runs inside your browser. Every real name, ID, and email is replaced with a safe token ([NAME_1], [EMAIL_1]) before the prompt is sent. The AI analyzes your actual business logic — but sees zero real identities.
Safety standard:
Airplane Mode Verified (RAM Only)
3
Get the AI's Answer Back in Plain Language
Paste the AI's response into Reveal Originals. PrivacyScrubber swaps every token back to the original value — instantly, inside browser RAM. Close the tab and every mapping is gone. Nothing stored, nothing logged, nothing sent.
Privacy Guarantee:
Mapping destroyed on tab close
Medical Adoption Use Cases
Chief Medical Information OfficerHIPAA & HITECH
Zero-Trust Verified
Secures clinical notes and patient records, masking PHI locally before research staff run diagnostic queries through generative LLMs.
Enforces zero-trust client-side sanitization across nursing and administrative terminals without needing complex BAA vendor agreements with AI providers.
Lead Clinical Informatics InvestigatorCLINICAL RESEARCH
Zero-Trust Verified
Enables multi-center research teams to scrub MRNs, dates, and physician names in browser memory prior to cross-institutional synthesis.
VP of HealthTech InfrastructureTELEHEALTH SEC
Zero-Trust Verified
Replaces sensitive patient IDs with deterministic pseudonyms in volatile RAM, ensuring zero PHI storage on local disks or third-party servers.
Flat Rate — Unlimited Seats
Your Whole Team on Real Client Data. Safely. $99/mo Flat.
No per-seat pricing. No DPA negotiation. No IT portal. Secure your entire organization with client-side PII masking — $99/month flat, unlimited users. SOC 2 & HIPAA ready. Works in Airplane Mode.
Zero-Trust Data Sanitization (ZTDS) — Verified Architecture
Independently auditable facts for Medical compliance teams
Data transmission
0 bytes sent to any server
Processing location
100% browser RAM (volatile memory)
Session map persistence
Destroyed on tab close — never written to disk
Key derivation
Argon2id (memory-hard, server-independent)
Encryption cipher
XChaCha20-Poly1305 (authenticated encryption)
Offline verification
Airplane Mode Standard — full function without network
BAA / DPA required
No — zero PHI/PII reaches PrivacyScrubber servers
Audit method
Chrome DevTools → Network tab — zero outbound requests
How to audit: Open PrivacyScrubber, enable Airplane Mode, paste any medical text, click Protect PII. Open Chrome DevTools → Network tab. Zero outbound requests will confirm 100% local execution. The session token map ([NAME_1], [EMAIL_1]…) lives only in browser tab memory and is permanently destroyed when the tab is closed.
COMPLIANCE FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about deploying zero-trust AI for Medical Teams.
Does protecting data with PrivacyScrubber before AI processing satisfy HIPAA Privacy Rule?
Yes. Processing pseudonymized data for a secondary purpose (AI analysis or drafting) aligns with HIPAA Privacy Rule because no personally identifiable data is transmitted to the AI provider. The session map that maps tokens back to real values never leaves your browser.
What specific PII does PrivacyScrubber detect for medical workflows?
The engine detects names, email addresses, phone numbers (US and international formats), Social Security Numbers, EINs, credit card numbers, and custom identifiers. PRO users can add custom regex rules to match medical-specific patterns such as proprietary account IDs, MRNs, or internal project codes.
Can I reverse the redaction if I use PrivacyScrubber to mask medical data?
Yes. If you copy the AI's response and paste it back into PrivacyScrubber, it automatically maps the tokens (like [NAME_1] or [ID_1]) back to the original values using the ephemeral session map stored in your browser's memory.
Can PrivacyScrubber be used 100% offline without network requests?
Yes. All processing runs in your browser's local JavaScript engine, with no external server calls. Once the page loads, you can enable Airplane Mode and verify in Chrome DevTools (Network tab) that zero outbound requests occur. All cryptographic operations (including client-side pseudonymization and reverse-revealing) utilize hardware-accelerated XChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption and Argon2id key derivation running entirely inside browser RAM, ensuring your medical data stays 100% on your device.
How can I verify that PrivacyScrubber sends zero data to servers?
Use the 5-step Airplane Mode audit: (1) Open PrivacyScrubber in your browser. (2) Disconnect your network connection (enable Airplane Mode). (3) Paste a text sample containing names, emails, and phone numbers. (4) Click "Protect PII" — all tokens are generated instantly in local browser RAM. (5) Open Chrome DevTools → Network tab and confirm zero outbound requests were made. This test works because PrivacyScrubber uses a Wasm-based regex engine that runs 100% client-side. The session token map (e.g. [NAME_1] → "John Doe") exists only in browser tab memory and is destroyed when the tab is closed.
Do I need a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) or GDPR Data Processing Agreement (DPA) with PrivacyScrubber?
No. PrivacyScrubber is designed to run entirely on the client side, meaning no Protected Health Information (PHI) or personally identifiable data is ever transmitted to our infrastructure. Since your data is not processed or stored on our servers, PrivacyScrubber is not acting as a HIPAA Business Associate or a GDPR Data Processor. Consequently, organizations typically determine that standard Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) or Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) are not applicable to PrivacyScrubber. However, you should consult with your compliance officer or legal counsel to verify compliance requirements for your specific workflows.
Can I customize detection rules for industry-specific data formats?
Yes. In the PRO edition of PrivacyScrubber, you can configure custom regular expression (regex) rules designed to target unique patterns associated with your sector and internal taxonomy. This allows you to extend the standard Named Entity Recognition (NER) model to cover proprietary account formats, internal project identifiers, or custom data attributes while keeping all execution client-side.
Can I use AI to summarize patient records?
Only if you de-identify the records first. Uploading raw patient notes to public AI models violates HIPAA. PrivacyScrubber's local processing ensures PHI is masked before summarization. Protect your entire staff with TEAMS for $99/mo.
Is pasting sensitive data into ChatGPT safe?
Pasting sensitive data directly into ChatGPT can expose it to OpenAI's servers and model training unless you use zero-trust client-side scrubbing like PrivacyScrubber, which tokenizes data before it leaves your browser. Protect your workflows for $15/mo with PRO.
How does client-side PII redaction work?
Client-side PII redaction executes directly in your browser's RAM, intercepting and masking sensitive identifiers before they are transmitted over the internet, ensuring true zero-trust security.
How does the Secure Workspace differ from the Browser Extension?
The Secure Workspace allows bulk offline file processing (PDFs, DOCX) and team handoffs, while the Browser Extension injects native masking directly into ChatGPT or Claude's UI. Both are included in our zero-trust ecosystem.
What is the PII MCP Server used for?
The local Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server allows developers to automate PII sanitization in CI/CD pipelines, agentic workflows, and IDEs like Cursor—all executing 100% locally.
What Medical Professionals Send to AI — and What They Should Be Sending InsteadWhy Medical Compliance Teams Flag Unmasked AI Prompts
The laws governing medical records are clear: HIPAA Privacy Rule, HIPAA Security Rule, and the Common Rule (45 CFR 46) for research involving human subjects. Yet, reducing administrative burden requires using AI efficiency. Resolving this paradox means implementing the standards in how to de-identify clinical notes for ai to ensure that clinical records are sanitized before external transit. Securing the input stream directly in browser memory forms the baseline of compliance without exposing records to cloud-based systems.
How to Use AI on Real Medical Data — Without Sending a Single Real Name
PrivacyScrubber secures the browser text box through local Zero-Trust Data Sanitization, utilizing both a copy-paste web workspace and the automated PrivacyScrubber Chrome Extension. By running local NER, the tool replaces high-risk text elements with secure placeholders (e.g., [PHONE_1]) before cloud transmission. This aligns with standard procedures for HIPAA-compliant ChatGPT workflows, ensuring the AI receives only clean, non-PII context. The Chrome Extension places an intuitive protection button inside ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to automate redaction and restore original text on the fly. By executing Named Entity Recognition entirely in local memory, PrivacyScrubber preserves the usefulness of ChatGPT, clinical decision support AI, and AI-assisted documentation platforms for production workflows without introducing external risk.
Is PrivacyScrubber safe for protect medical records for AI, HIPAA compliant PII protector?
Yes, absolutely. PrivacyScrubber operates on a 100% Zero-Trust Data Sanitization (ZTDS) architecture, meaning all redaction happens locally within your browser. When working with protect medical records for AI, HIPAA compliant PII protector, no sensitive data ever leaves your device or touches a cloud server.
How does it handle custom data structures for medical?
Our engine includes 22+ built-in industry profiles optimized for medical data. Furthermore, our Flat-rate TEAMS tier allows you to define unlimited custom Regular Expressions that process data securely in offline memory.
Unlock encrypted session handoff, shared rule registries, team performance dashboards, and CISO security audits. Flat $99/mo — no per-seat pricing.
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Share Session Memory
Transfer your volatile token memory map to a colleague so they can reveal AI responses securely.
Zero-Trust Encryption
Hardware-accelerated AES-256-GCM. Key derivation via PBKDF2 (600,000 iterations). 100% Client-Side.
PRO / TEAMS
Enterprise Session Handoff
Collaborate without risk. Securely transfer volatile token memory maps directly to colleagues, enabling secure cross-device AI data restoration without saving anything to disk.
Airplane Mode Challenge
Zero-Server · Zero-Trust · 100% Local
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SAMPLE PREVIEW
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Zero-Trust Compliance Certificate
This document certifies that the data sanitization operation was executed entirely client-side on the user's local machine. Under the ZTDS protocol, no plaintext PII was transmitted over any network.
Timestamp:2026-07-17T12:35Z
Session Hash:a4b9c1d3...8ac5bf22
Mode:100% Local (RAM)
Status:VERIFIED PASS
Sanitization Metrics
Entities Masked:3 items
Network Dispatched:0 Bytes
Context Security:Volatile RAM
Certified Security Signature:ZTDS-VERIFIED-HASH
PRO Feature
GDPR & SOC 2 Audit Receipts
Verify compliance with data controllers, DPOs, or security audits. Download a signed PDF certificate generated locally in your browser to prove that no prompt data left your network.
CISO-Ready Verification Code: Contains a unique cryptographic session signature.
Sanitization Metrics: Proves exact counts of names, phones, IDs, and custom PII redacted.
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Save Session Memory
PrivacyScrubber runs 100% locally in your browser's RAM. Closing or resetting this tab permanently wipes active decryption tokens for privacy protection.
Zero-Trust Session Backup
Download your encrypted session file (.pssession). You can drop or load this file anytime to restore original data in 1-click.
DevSecOps Audit Report
Zero-Trust Directory Scan Complete. 100% Offline.
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Airplane Mode Challenge
Zero-Server · Zero-Trust · 100% Local
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