AI in Digital Health, From Early Detection to Responsible Deployment
When structured oversight meets practical innovation, the result is systems that are not only technically sound but actually usable.
When structured oversight meets practical innovation, the result is systems that are not only technically sound but actually usable.
Epic Systems and several healthcare providers have sued Health Gorilla and other companies, alleging they exploited interoperability networks to improperly access and monetize nearly 300,000 patient medical records without consent.
We are currently experiencing an inflection point for progress in interoperability. Without meaningful reform to reflect the real world, the system risks repeating and even accelerating historical patterns of exclusion — leaving vulnerable patients behind.
There are aspects of the plan worth praising, but these benefits are overshadowed by three key concerns that will disproportionately impact vulnerable populations if the plan is implemented as written.
As manufacturers play an active role in the patients’ healthcare journey, the boundaries between manufacturers and healthcare providers/payers are becoming increasingly blurry.
Leaders in pharma’s AI age won’t be remembered for moving the fastest, but for earning and keeping trust along the way. Privacy will determine which companies pull ahead and which fall behind, making it one of the industry’s biggest tests.
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How do you know a vendor handles data properly? Fortunately, independently-audited certifications can ease your concerns about a developer’s trustworthiness.
It has become standard practice for healthcare organizations to focus on identifying and stopping external threats to the privacy and security of data, but one often overlooked risk may be right inside your offices — snooping employees and malicious insider threats.
Where we’ve been, where we’re going, and how healthcare organizations can protect themselves from privacy risks caused by the Meta pixel and other third-party trackers
We expect 2023 to be a pivotal year for the industry, as the accelerated acceptance of virtual care and demographic trends, such as an aging population, increasing chronic illnesses and healthcare worker shortages, sustain demand for medtech-enabled solutions.
The agency reminded health apps and wearables companies that they must disclose any breach of users’ health information, even if they are not a HIPAA covered entity. Companies that fail to disclose a breach could face thousands of dollars per day in fines.
Zoom recently reached an $85 million settlement agreement for a lawsuit alleging the company shared users’ data and misrepresented encryption claims. It should be a lesson for the industry that health data cannot be used with disregard, a security expert said.
Clear use-cases to fully understand how the synthetic data will be deployed are an essential component of the decision making process, and although by nature synthetic data isn't ‘real’, its existence within the data supply chain should still fall under data governance and security policies.
Research organizations can participate in ethical data sharing today by considering participants’ privacy and security and balancing the need to protect their commercial interests with the need to share enough data to benefit medical research.
Most apps offering opioid use disorder treatment have access to sensitive identifying information of their users, according to an analysis of 10 of them.