Hospitals profit from your health records. Insurers sell your claims history. Employers buy wellness data. RigidHealth flips the equation — sovereign personal health records stored on your terms, under your keys.
Every test, every prescription, every diagnostic image, every insurance claim — you generated all of it. Someone else owns it, controls it, and profits from it.
The hospital's Electronic Health Record system stores your data under their control, on their servers, accessible to their vendors. You have a legal right to a copy — but you don't get the keys to the original.
Every insurance claim you file is a data point that insurers package and sell to data brokers, pharmaceutical companies, and employers — often with only nominal anonymization that can be reversed.
Your cardiologist can't see your allergist's notes. Your new doctor starts from scratch at every visit. You spend hours on the phone requesting records that should be instantly accessible — to you.
A hospital may share your records with dozens of vendors, partners, and researchers. You will never see a log of that activity. You have no audit trail, no revocation right, no record of who knows what about you.
"HIPAA already gives you the legal right to your records. The 21st Century Cures Act mandates interoperability. The rights exist on paper. The infrastructure to actually exercise them doesn't — until now."
The difference between a Personal Health Record and a hospital-owned Electronic Health Record is simple: who controls access. RigidHealth makes you the keymaster.
Why RigidVault is the right infrastructure for this: The same sovereign air-gapped architecture that protects a machinist's proprietary CAD file protects your health records. Zero-knowledge access control means we can verify a provider has authorization without exposing the underlying record. Immutable audit logging — the same chain-of-custody system built for Heritage Assets — becomes your complete access history. This isn't a new product built from scratch. It's an existing fortress with a new door.
Three steps to owning your health data the way you were always supposed to.
Upload records you already have, or invoke your HIPAA right to request them from every provider. They're legally required to deliver them within 30 days. We help you track every request.
Supported formats: HL7 FHIR, CCDA, PDF, DICOM imaging, lab results, prescription history, insurance claims.
Grant your cardiologist access to cardiac history only. Your new GP gets the full record. Your employer gets nothing. You set the scope, the duration, and the revocation trigger.
Every access — granted, denied, revoked — is logged in your immutable audit trail. You can export the full log at any time.
Opt in to contribute anonymized data to medical research. Pharmaceutical companies, universities, and clinical researchers pay to access pools of consented data. You receive your share quarterly via RigidRoyalty.
Always opt-in. Never opt-out. Your default is zero sharing. You activate contribution on your schedule.
Big pharma and academic institutions spend billions acquiring health data — data that patients generated and received nothing for. RigidHealth connects consenting contributors directly to that revenue stream. When a researcher licenses access to an anonymized data pool that includes your contribution, RigidRoyalty calculates your proportional share based on data type, condition category, rarity, and research value — and pays it to you. This is the same RigidRoyalty framework that pays creators when their CAD files train RigidAI. The principle is identical: your data, your revenue.
Most shops monitor their CNC equipment more carefully than the people operating it. RigidHealth changes that — built on the same RigidSense sensor platform already on the shop floor.
Cumulative decibel-hour logging per shift. OSHA 1910.95 compliance automation. Early warning before threshold violations.
Hand-arm vibration tracking per operator. EU Directive 2002/44/EC and ACGIH thresholds. Long-term exposure history.
Particulate matter, VOC concentration, and coolant mist levels at the operator position — not just the shop average.
Station-level temperature and humidity. Heat stress index calculation. OSHA WBGT compliance.
Movement pattern tracking, repetitive motion indicators, posture alerts. Early identification of strain before injury.
Automated 300 log entries, exposure records, and incident documentation. Audit-ready at any time.
An employer running RigidHealth on the shop floor gets OSHA compliance reports and aggregate safety dashboards. The individual worker's exposure history, health trends, and biometric data live in their RigidVault — not the company's. If they change employers, their complete occupational health history travels with them. If a long-term condition develops years later, they have the documented record that links it to workplace exposure. This is a fundamental right, not an accommodation.
RigidHealth operates under the same Nine Bills of Rights that govern every Kavanagh Industries platform. Several Bills apply directly.
Your health records are your creation — generated by your body, your choices, your life. You hold forensic origin rights. Your data never trains any AI model without explicit opt-in consent and a direct royalty payment. You export everything in open formats at any time, at no cost.
Safe conditions are a non-negotiable right. Safety data — including your occupational exposure history — is never suppressed for production efficiency. Your wellness records belong to you, not your employer. The AI augments your safety awareness; it never overrides your judgment about your own body.
RigidAI only learns from health data contributed by explicit opt-in consent. No health record is ever used for training without your written authorization and a royalty agreement in place. Annual third-party ethical audit with published results covers all health data handling. No exceptions.
"The same constitution that protects a machinist's CAD file protects his medical records. The same trust that makes a manufacturer comfortable storing million-dollar IP in RigidVault makes a worker comfortable storing his health history there. The principle doesn't change based on the data type."
Shaun Kavanagh — Founder, Kavanagh Industries LLC
The personal records vault is the foundation. Worker wellness monitoring and research royalty participation build on top of it.
RigidHealth's personal records vault and access control functions do not require FDA clearance. The research data contribution and royalty model is governed by IRB protocols at the receiving institution — we are the sovereign storage and access control layer, not the research sponsor. HIPAA Business Associate Agreements will be executed with any covered entity using the platform for provider access. The enterprise shop floor module complies with OSHA recordkeeping standards at 29 CFR 1904. This pillar is being built right or not at all. We understand the regulatory landscape and will not cut corners to ship faster.
The simplest version of this product — sovereign personal health record storage with provider access control — can be built on existing RigidVault infrastructure today. That's where we start.
Secure sovereign storage for health records. HIPAA request tracking. Provider access control. Audit log. Built on existing RigidVault architecture — this is a module, not a new product from scratch.
Opt-in research contribution with RigidRoyalty payment integration. IRB partnership framework. Contribution weighting model. This requires volume first — the data pool has to be meaningful before researchers pay for access.
Environmental sensor array at the operator station. OSHA compliance automation. Enterprise deployment tied to existing RigidSense and RigidCore installations — natural upsell into shops already on the platform.
If this resonates — whether you're a patient tired of losing control of your records, a shop owner who wants to protect your workers, or an investor who sees the market — reach out.
shaun@kavanaghind.comKavanagh Industries LLC — Clinton Township, Michigan
RigidHealth is a future pillar of the Kavanagh Industries ecosystem