Source: healthcareitnews.com Back in 2019, Healthcare IT News reported on a unique privacy case involving Google and the University of Chicago Medical Center – which had been named as defendants in a class action suit alleging that they’d failed to properly de-identify data used for machine learning research and predictive analytics projects. The suit’s plaintiff, Daniel Dinerstein, who was Read More
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Source: healthitanalytics.com Patient safety, data privacy, and health equity are key considerations for the use of chatbots powered by artificial intelligence in healthcare, according to a viewpoint piece published in JAMA. With the emergence of COVID-19 and social distancing guidelines, more healthcare systems are exploring and deploying automated chatbots, the authors noted. However, there are several key considerations organizations Read More
Source: hitinfrastructure.com March 19, 2020 – Sentara Healthcare, one of the nation’s oldest not-for-profit health systems, recently announced that it partnered with CitiusTech to implement a next-gen enterprise data platform (EDP). Using Microsoft Partner Citius’s H-Scale solution, Sentara completed the deployment of the EDP to provide a single, consolidated view of provider, payer, and enterprise information from Sentara and Read More
Source: hitinfrastructure.com February 14, 2020 – Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption is gradually becoming more prominent in health systems, but 75 percent of healthcare insiders are concerned that AI could threaten the security and privacy of patient data, according to a recent survey from KPMG. Although 91 percent of healthcare respondents believe that AI implementation is increasing patient access to care, Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Newark, New Jersey-based Duality Technologies, a provider of privacy-enhancing data science solutions, today announced that it’s raised $16 million in a series A round led by Intel Capital, with participation from Hearst Ventures and existing investor Team 8. Duality previously raised $4 million in a November 2018 round, which together with this latest Read More
Source – pcmag.com The fallout from the Cambridge Analytica controversy has triggered Facebook to cancel an advertising tool that pulled data from people’s backgrounds, like whether you own a home or what products you like to buy. “We want to let advertisers know that we will be shutting down Partner Categories,” Facebook said on Wednesday. “This product enables Read More
Source – thehindu.com Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer going to remain the secret sauce of giant tech companies. Microsoft said that it was betting big on ‘democratising’ artificial intelligence and making it ‘available to all’ to help improve lives and transform businesses. Detecting deadly diseases, reducing accident risks, predicting consumer behaviour and helping farmers increase Read More
Source – techrepublic.com Issues surrounding data privacy are as legally unresolved today as they were two years ago, but the recent Equifax breach now puts a clear focus on them that strikes fear into the hearts of CIOs. The Equifax data that was breached was not big data. However, big data is a major privacy concern for IT because Read More