Security News > 2024 > January > Balancing AI benefits with security and privacy risks in healthcare

To manage an environment of increasing risks and limited resources, healthcare internal audit and compliance departments must align their risk assessments and audit work plans to areas most vital to achieving the strategic goals and business objectives of their organizations, according to Kodiak.

To unlock these benefits, healthcare provider organizations need to mitigate a host of risks, such as storing and securing enormous amounts of data that is mostly protected health information, protecting the training data for AI models from malicious actors seeking to introduce bad data, and rooting out bias that can creep into in AI algorithms because of a lack of data for gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity.

Along with the many benefits of AI and new technologies, healthcare organizations need to be aware of several security and privacy risks.

The benefits of AI tools can only be realized if the organization can solve the workforce challenges of recruiting employees with the right skills to manage these tools and their attendant risks, and training employees to use them.

"The top risks we have identified affect each healthcare organization in its own way based on its current capabilities, the characteristics of its market and other factors," Yunker said.

"As a healthcare leader, you must evaluate how these risks impact your organization and then develop internal audit and compliance plans that allocate your limited resources to the most impactful risk areas for your organization."

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