Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Health Care: Privacy & Legal Issues

Artificial intelligence is rapidly revolutionizing the health care system, affecting everything from consumer health devices to sophisticated diagnostic tools that inform clinical decision-making. As AI moves closer to actually making independent clinical decisions, significant legal and ethical ramifications are involved.

This program covers:

• Overview of the use of AI in health care
• Definitions of AI, machine learning, deep learning and black-box medicine
• Reimbursement, including recent changes to Medicare
• Regulation of clinical devices that involve AI, including software as a medical device, and FDA rules
• Implications for privacy and issues regarding HIPAA and patient confidentiality
• Questions of intellectual property ownership
• Malpractice concerns with the use of AI
• How to combat potential discriminatory biases in AI
• Discussion by the CEO of a start-up focused on transforming clinical diagnosis and treatment in pathology and oncology through AI, including practical concerns and experience