HealthIT Answers December 4, 2025
The healthcare sector’s AI ambitions are accelerating, from augmented telehealth and diagnostics to streamlined billing, claims, and scheduling. But as health systems integrate AI deeper into their workflows, one critical question often gets overlooked: How secure are the models themselves?
For CIOs and CISOs, the risk goes far beyond traditional data breaches. AI models fine-tuned on patient health information (PHI), imaging, electronic health records (EHRs), or claims data can become open gateways to HIPAA-protected content.
According to a recent IBM report, 13% of organizations have already experienced breaches of AI models or applications, and 97% lacked proper access controls.
As AI becomes foundational to care delivery and operations, protecting these models must become a core tenet of enterprise risk management...







