HealthIT Answers March 15, 2023
By Michael Armstrong, Chief Technology Officer, Authenticx
Twitter: @be_authenticx
From patient communication to cancer detection, artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) role across healthcare is becoming increasingly more prominent. Although its implementation increases the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare, AI also raises patient privacy concerns. In fact, healthcare breaches were at an all-time high in 2021, affecting 45 million people, according to Critical Insights’ 2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report. To safeguard patient information and communications, healthcare organizations must build a foundation of trust, compliance and transparency.
AI’s relationship to data
Global data breaches have reinvigorated the focus on healthcare data’s security and privacy risks as has the interest in current protections in place. With AI-powered products helping to facilitate the exchange of medical information...