Health Care’s AI Embrace Boosts Workforce Despite Privacy Risks

Health providers using artificial intelligence tools to automate clinical visit notes can reduce their administrative burdens and staffing shortages, but they do so at the risk of violating health privacy laws.

The lack of regulatory oversight for generative AI and patient data authorization raise particular concerns, attorneys say, as a growing number of healthcare facilities incorporate AI into their practices.

“In the last couple years we’re seeing more and more clients interested in leveraging AI,” said Bonnie Odom, a member specializing in healthcare and telehealth regulation at Epstein, Becker & Green. “It’s definitely not going away...