The clinician beta — what we're asking, and what we're not.
This sets out what taking part in the AuVentures clinician beta involves, where the tool’s limits are, and how your professional responsibility and your patients’ information are protected. It is written to be honest rather than reassuring.
The short version
The full agreement is below. This is the gist a busy clinician needs first.
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This is a beta of unfinished software. Expect rough edges, gaps, and changes.
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Taking part is voluntary and unpaid, and you can withdraw at any time.
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Who can take part
This agreement is between you and AuVentures Health (“AuVentures,” “we,” “us”), and covers your participation in the AuVentures clinician beta. You can take part if you are a clinician licensed and in good standing in the United States — this includes physicians, nurse practitioners, physician associates, and other licensed clinicians within their scope of practice.
You take part as an individual clinician. If your employer or institution must approve your participation or the handling of patient data, securing that approval is your responsibility before you begin (see Section 5).
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What AuVentures is — stated honestly
AuVentures helps patients gather, digitize, and organize their longitudinal medical records, and renders clinical documents into plain language. In the beta, you’re seeing how that patient-held, organized record fits into a clinical encounter.
We want to be precise about what it is not, because the easy version oversells it:
- It is not a cleared or approved medical device, and it has not been validated as clinical decision support.
- It does not diagnose, triage, or recommend treatment, and it is not designed or intended to be relied on for those purposes.
- Its summaries and organization are informational and may be incomplete or wrong; they do not replace review of the source records.
On evidence: we don’t yet have outcomes data showing the tool improves care, and we won’t imply that we do. The beta exists partly to learn whether and where it helps. We’d rather you join with accurate expectations than inflated ones.
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What the beta involves
Concretely, taking part means:
- Using AuVentures with patients who have themselves chosen to take part, in the ordinary course of your work.
- Giving us feedback — through short check-ins, optional interviews, or a feedback channel — on what helps your workflow and what gets in the way.
- Telling us promptly if you notice something that looks unsafe, misleading, or wrong.
The beta is time-limited and may evolve as we learn. We will tell you about meaningful changes, and we’ll respect your time — feedback requests are kept proportionate, and interviews are optional.
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Your judgment stays in charge
This is the most important clause. Using AuVentures does not change your professional responsibilities in any way. You remain solely responsible for clinical decisions, for your patients’ care, and for your own documentation in your own systems of record.
Nothing AuVentures shows you is a directive. Treat the tool’s output as one input among many — to be verified against source records and your own clinical assessment — never as a substitute for either. Where the tool and your judgment disagree, your judgment governs.
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Patient information and the BAA question
Patients in the beta control their own records and choose what to share. Even so, the moment protected health information from your practice moves through AuVentures, the privacy rules that bind you come into play.
Open item. The beta’s data-flow design, and whether a BAA or a different arrangement applies for each participating clinician, must be confirmed with counsel and with your institution before any patient data is handled.
You agree to handle patient information within your existing legal and professional obligations, to apply the minimum-necessary principle, and to rely on patient consent where required.
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Confidentiality of pre-release materials
During the beta you’ll see software, designs, and plans that aren’t public. Please keep them confidential: don’t share access, screenshots, or recordings outside the beta, and don’t publish evaluations of the unreleased tool, without our written agreement.
This doesn’t restrict you from discussing your own clinical experience in general terms, and it doesn’t apply to anything that becomes public through no fault of yours.
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Feedback
Your feedback is the point of the beta. By giving it, you grant us permission to use it to improve AuVentures — including ideas, suggestions, and critiques — without obligation or payment to you, and without it becoming your or your employer’s confidential information by virtue of being shared with us.
We will not quote you by name or attribute feedback to you publicly without your permission.
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This is a product beta, not a clinical trial
The beta is intended to evaluate usability, workflow fit, and safety in practice — not to test a clinical hypothesis on patients. It is not human-subjects research, and it is not designed to generate published clinical evidence.
If at any point we want to use beta data for research intended for publication or generalizable knowledge, that would be a separate undertaking: it would require its own protocol, the appropriate institutional review (IRB) where applicable, and its own informed consent. We will not quietly repurpose beta participation into research.
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Cost and compensation
Participation in the beta is unpaid, and there is no fee to take part. We are a not-for-profit; the beta is a collaboration, not a commercial engagement.
To confirm. If any compensation, honorarium, or expense reimbursement is offered for time spent in interviews or evaluation, the terms and any conflict-of-interest disclosures must be set out here before launch.
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The legal limits
The beta software is provided “as is,” without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. We do not warrant that it is accurate, complete, uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for any particular clinical purpose.
To the fullest extent the law allows, AuVentures is not liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from the beta. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, and nothing here shifts to AuVentures the professional responsibility that remains yours under Section 4.
Placeholder. Indemnity, liability, insurance, and governing-law terms must be drafted by counsel before this is used.
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Voluntary participation and withdrawal
Taking part is voluntary. You can withdraw at any time, for any reason, by telling us — there is no penalty and you need not explain. On withdrawal, you stop using the tool; the confidentiality and feedback terms (Sections 6 and 7) continue for materials and feedback already shared.
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Term, changes, and ending the beta
The beta runs for a defined period and may be extended, paused, or ended by either of us. We may update this agreement as the beta develops; if a change is material, we’ll tell you and give you the chance to review it before it takes effect. If you don’t agree to a change, you can withdraw.
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Questions
If anything here needs clarifying — especially the data-handling and BAA questions in Section 5 — please raise it before you begin. You can reach the beta team at clinicians@auventures.org