A ton of EMR systems are cloud-hosted these days. There’s already patient data for probably a billion humans in the various hyperscalers.
Totally understand that approaches vary but beyond EMR there’s work to augment radiologists with computer vision to better diagnose, all sorts of cloudy things.
It’s here. It’s growing. Perhaps in your jurisdiction it’s prohibited? If so I wonder for how long.
In the US, HIPAA requires that health care providers complete a Business Associate Agreement with any other orgs that receive PHI in the course of doing business [1]. It basically says they understand HIPAA privacy protections and will work to fulfill the contracting provider's obligations regarding notification of breaches and deletion. Obviously any EMR service will include this by default.
Most orgs charge a huge premium for this. OpenAI offers it directly [2]. Some EMR providers are offering it as an add-on [3], but last I heard, it's wicked expensive.
In the US, it would be unthinkable for a hospital to send patient data to something like ChatGPT or any other public services.
Might be possible with some certain specific regions/environments of Azure tho, because iirc they have a few that support government confidentiality type of stuff, and some that tout HIPAA compliance as well. Not sure about details of those though.
nixgeek|6 months ago
Totally understand that approaches vary but beyond EMR there’s work to augment radiologists with computer vision to better diagnose, all sorts of cloudy things.
It’s here. It’s growing. Perhaps in your jurisdiction it’s prohibited? If so I wonder for how long.
fineIllregister|6 months ago
Most orgs charge a huge premium for this. OpenAI offers it directly [2]. Some EMR providers are offering it as an add-on [3], but last I heard, it's wicked expensive.
1: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...
2: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8660679-how-can-i-get-a-...
3: https://www.ntst.com/carefabric/careguidance-solutions/ai-do...
londons_explore|6 months ago
There might be a lot less paperwork to just buy 50 decent GPU's and have the IT guy self-host.
kakoni|6 months ago
filoleg|6 months ago
Might be possible with some certain specific regions/environments of Azure tho, because iirc they have a few that support government confidentiality type of stuff, and some that tout HIPAA compliance as well. Not sure about details of those though.