Becker's Healthcare May 24, 2019
Andrea Park

To reap the benefits that artificial intelligence can bring to healthcare, HIPAA restrictions and overall attitudes toward data privacy must be relaxed, according to Luke Miner, PhD, a data scientist at Plaid and Tunebend.

In an op-ed for The New York Times this week, Dr. Miner described how he recently had to abandon his plans to create an AI-powered app that made recommendations based on users’ symptoms. “AI requires a lot of data, and when it comes to people’s personal health information, it’s incredibly difficult to gain access, even if the data is anonymized,” he wrote.

Dr. Miner offered several solutions that could ensure this access to researchers looking to build populationally representative AI health tools. For one, patients could...

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