Becker's Healthcare July 7, 2023
Hospitals and health systems whose providers use ChatGPT could be opening themselves up to HIPAA violations and lawsuits if they are not careful with patient data, two health policy experts wrote in JAMA.
Clinicians who employ the artificial intelligence chatbot in their practice are sharing the data with its developer, OpenAI, so they have to be sure they do not input protected health information, according to the July 6 article by Genevieve Kanter, PhD, an associate professor of health policy at Los Angeles-based University of Southern California, and Eric Packel, a healthcare privacy and compliance attorney with law firm BakerHostetler.
“This is harder than it sounds,” they...