Using Apple Intelligence to process medical research surveys?

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I have a friend who researches health studies. Typically, they are processing individuals’ health data from surveys gathered from schools, clinics, etc. Much time is consumed manually processing/formatting data from these forms. They seem like an excellent candidate for an AI to automagically organize the data. She noted that HIPPA rules would prohibit the use of something like ChatGPT and computer processing where patient data could possibly leak.

Apple Intelligence sounds like an ideal candidate for doing this work – either with on-device computation or computation in Apple’s AI cloud servers. How would one start doing this? Is this kind of form recognition/processing something that was covered in a WWDC presentation? Would Apple’s privacy promises be sufficient for this kind of data processing? Would Apple have any offices/contacts to provide advice on this kind of project?

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In principal, Apple Intelligence sounds good, they certainly went out of their way to make it sound as safe as possible, but we won’t know until it actually exists and people start hitting it hard. If it lives up to its promises, then it might well get HIPPA approval.

It looks like, unless the health care provider enters into a BAA (Business Assosciate Agreement) with the cloud service, they cannot use that cloud service for processing or storage, so your friend’s employer would need to enter into a BAA agreement with Apple, before your friend could use Apple Intelligence offloading.