Whether you know it or not, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more common and may be accessing your patients’ protected health information (i.e., digital scribe, EHR code searches, etc.). The problem is that AI and privacy don’t always mix well.
Although AI can make your life easier, it can also make it difficult to keep your patients’ protected health information (PHI) out of the wrong hands. Anytime a new technology, like AI, has the potential to cause issues with patient information privacy, you can bet that governmental regulators and enforcers are paying close attention.
AI and Privacy Protection
There are actions you can take to better protect against risks arising out of AI, including privacy and security breaches, and healthcare attorneys Carolyn Metnick, JD, and CJ Rundell, JD, can walk you through the process.
On Wednesday, May 15th at 1pm ET, Carolyn and CJ will provide you with practical strategies to help your practice identify the risks related to AI more quickly. Their online training will help you prevent problems related to AI and privacy. They’ll also help you outline the necessary staff training to protect your practice from HIPAA violations related to AI and privacy. In just 60 minutes, you’ll learn how to continue to benefit from AI, and at the same time how to protect against breaches and costly fines.
Check out just a few of the key tactics you’ll receive from Carolyn and CJ to help you mitigate risks to PHI arising out of AI and privacy issues before they occur:
- Head off the most common privacy and security issues when AI is in the mix
- Get proven safeguards to keep your patient data safe
- Pin down firewalls, encryption policies, and log monitoring protocols that work
- Protect against HIPAA improper uses and disclosures, and related penalties due to breaches relating to the use of AI services
- Utilize a proven checklist to help staff guard against breach
- Identify unscrupulous AI vendors with targeted vetting strategies
- Clarify if and when your practice must disclose AI use to patients/payers and best practices for how
- Differentiate when AI use may be acceptable and when you should avoid it
- And much, much more…
Artificial intelligence technologies are developing quickly, putting your patients’ health information at greater risk of a breach. It is imperative you take action right now to head off problems related to AI and protect the privacy of your patients’ PHI.
Failure to protect your patient’s PHI privacy exposes your practice to severe fines, penalties, and sanctions, whether the leak occurs knowingly or not. When AI and privacy of patient information is your top concern, it is best to take advice from experts.
Register for this online training today to help protect your practice from HIPAA privacy leaks due to AI technology. Space is limited, so don’t wait!
Carolyn represents a range of healthcare industry clients, including hospitals and health systems, physician organizations and digital health companies. She advises on healthcare regulatory and transactional matters with a focus on health information privacy and security.
Carolyn advises clients on a range of privacy and security laws, including HIPAA and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). She also counsels businesses in data breach investigations and compliance with federal and state breach notification laws. Carolyn is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) and a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E).
Carolyn also represents healthcare industry clients in transactional matters. She guides clients through joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and advises on healthcare regulatory issues. Her background as a former litigator helps inform her transactional work.
CJ advises healthcare corporations on mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions and governance matters. His representative work experience includes representation of healthcare provider and management organizations, technology companies, commercial insurers, managed care organizations, Medicare Advantage health plans, nonprofit and for-profit health systems, academic medical centers, community hospitals, and post-acute and sub-acute providers such as home health and hospice providers, and behavioral health providers.
CJ also provides regulatory guidance to a variety of healthcare clients, such as hospitals and health systems, provider groups, technology companies, telehealth providers, and insurers on myriad regulatory matters such as HIPAA privacy and security compliance, information blocking and interoperability implementation and compliance, physician contracting, healthcare fraud and abuse compliance and investigation, corporate practice of medicine compliance, licensure and accreditation, and Medicare and Medicaid enrollment and compliance.
Previously, CJ was a healthcare transactional and regulatory associate in the Chicago office of an AmLaw 100 law firm with a nationally-recognized healthcare practice.
