HDS and French healthcare data residency for voice transcription

French healthcare voice-transcription providers handling patient data must comply not only with GDPR but also with France’s HDS certification regime under Article L.1111-8, which applies throughout the processing chain, including third-party speech-to-text providers and their subcontractors. The material states that HDS v1.1 certificates became invalid on May 16, 2026, making HDS v2.0 certification, appropriate operational and backup scopes, EEA-based processing, documented access controls, data-processing agreements, and subcontractor oversight central vendor-evaluation criteria. It distinguishes data residency from data sovereignty, noting that storing data in Europe may not eliminate exposure to foreign legal jurisdictions, and emphasizes minimizing retention of audio, transcripts, and metadata. The provider promotes its HDS-certified dedicated EU clusters and asynchronous Solaria-3 transcription model for French and other European conversational audio, while advising customers to verify certification in the ANS registry, test routing and accuracy on representative clinical recordings, explicitly enable PII redaction, and confirm deletion, retention, and remote-access practices.

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