Politico March 14, 2024
Ruth Reader, Gregory Svirnovskiy, Carmen Paun, Daniel Payne and Erin Schumaker

Health care industry leaders and regulators mingled at yesterday’s POLITICO Health Care Summit.

Andrew Trister, chief science officer at Verily, Google’s health tech sister company, took the opportunity to ask the government officials for some clarity on their plans for safeguarding patient information in the artificial intelligence era, highlighting the inadequacy of current rules.

“We’d like to see regulations that are very clear about how to move forward,” Trister said at the summit.

Why it matters: Patient data is largely protected by a decades-old rule that long preceded AI and data-gathering digital devices.

Absent new rules from the government, Verily discloses its data collection and sharing practices upfront and obtains patient consent.

Even so: In a class-action suit, patients sued...

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