While AI use for health care applications is becoming more common, Oregon Health and Science University Privacy and AI Counsel Liyue Sigle, AIGP, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, and Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow Dr. Monia Reding write, the technology’s potential of being able to offer personalized medicine “is also accompanied by technical, regulatory and ethical challenges that demand careful governance.” Sigle and Reding analyze how existing privacy frameworks, such as the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule, covers some, but not all of AI’s complexity in health care. They also discuss how the American Medical Association has not waited for regulators to fill in gaps AI use in medical care may leave and has issued set of principles that insist the “technology must be transparent, accountable, equitable and respectful of patient privacy.”
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