AI And Health Data: Cracking The Privacy Code

There is little doubt that artificial intelligence (AI) can transform healthcare practices and drive change in the healthcare sector - whether tracking the fastest ambulance routes, communicating with patients about their symptoms, or forming conclusions about scans or test results.

This use of AI can be a challenging nexus from a data protection perspective; involving the processing of personal data in ways that may be less than obvious to individuals, which can significantly affect the way they are treated, and almost always involves the processing of sensitive "special category" health data.

So what are some of the key data issues surrounding the use of AI to gain insight from patient data?