Healthcare IT Today February 21, 2025
The following is a guest article by Dr. Michael Blum, Founder and CEO at BeeKeeperAI
In an era where modifying a single DNA sequence can cure disabling diseases and a retinal scan can reveal important, unappreciated chronic diseases, the three-decade-old practice of data de-identification has become healthcare’s equivalent of using a paper lock in a digital world.
While HIPAA revolutionized patient data protection in 1996, today’s interconnected digital landscape has rendered these safeguards obsolete.
Every day, healthcare organizations share vast amounts of “de-identified” patient data to fuel AI innovation, operating under the dangerous illusion that removing 18 specific identifiers makes patient data truly anonymous.
But in a world where artificial intelligence can cross-reference thousands of data points in seconds, and...
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