Melanie Szweras and Patrick Roszell talk AI and Health Privacy with Lexpert

Recently Smart & Biggar Principals Patrick Roszell and Melanie Szweras sat down with Lexpert’s Zena Olijnyk to discuss the privacy impacts caused by the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector.

Melanie raised a few key privacy concerns, including the fact the someone’s “highly sensitive” health information could be improperly disclosed or misused, and whether data used in the health and life sciences sector has been properly anonymized. Of these concerns she notes “the key issue becomes the balance between the duty to protect personal health information and the ability to manage information in the healthcare system.”

Patrick discussed the touchpoints data has between acquisition and use and how parties along the way seek to impose restrictions or assert rights on how the data is used, noting “organizations are going to need to become more sophisticated about how they understand the importance of these rights, and how they contract around them.” He also noted that organizations need to understand both the technical aspects and the privacy considerations and that “technically-minded lawyers can do a lot to bring valuable guidance in connecting these dots.”

Read the full Lexpert interview.