January 5, 2026 – Toronto, ON – INOVAIT, Canada’s image-guided therapy and artificial intelligence (AI) network, is announcing the publication of its health data licensing tools, the Data Licensing Toolkit (Version 1.0). The Data Licensing Toolkit supports Canadian healthcare institutions in establishing governance processes for responsible and trustworthy sharing of de-identified health data with industry and other partners.
Version 1.0 of the Toolkit includes INOVAIT’s Data Request Evaluation Scorecard. The Scorecard provides a structured methodology for institutions to identify and mitigate risk, capture benefits, and gather the diverse input needed to perform institutional reviews of data sharing requests for technology development such as AI.
The Scorecard was validated and is used by the Data Access Committee at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario.
The Toolkit is free and accessible for hospitals and not-for-profits through a non-exclusive licensing agreement. Healthcare institutions and not-for-profits that access the Toolkit are also joining a growing community of healthcare institutions across Canada that share a common goal of responsibly and ethically fostering innovation. The agreement ensures that institutions that adopt the Toolkit will share improvements and best practices for the benefit of other organizations using the Toolkit.
“Canadian health data is very valuable, and healthcare institutions in Canada are getting more requests to share data with the private sector for AI development”, says Phil Boyer, Program Manager of Health Data Innovation for INOVAIT. “They want to support Canadian healthcare innovation to benefit Canadians, but they’re struggling with how to engage in this kind of data sharing safely and responsibly. Along with the Data Mobilization framework we published last year, Version 1.0 of this Toolkit is the next step in addressing that challenge.”
Interested healthcare institutions and not-for-profits can request access to the Toolkit today via the button below.
