Healthy PETs: Revolutionizing Healthcare AI Innovation through Privacy

Privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) can unlock opportunities for training artificial intelligence (AI) for health care, transforming patient care. This session will delve into data protection laws, such as GDPR, UK GDPR, HIPAA, and South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act, exploring key differences between such laws, and evolving regulatory guidance on AI and PETs. While PETs, such as anonymization, synthetic data generation, and federated learning, can enable data access and use for AI model training and deployment, their application is affected by these data protection laws.

The presentation will also cover critical factors that influence the selection of appropriate PETs, including the complexity of the project, data utility, and associated implementation costs.

Audience members will gain an understanding of the legal challenges associated with training AI using cross-border health data and the technical tools available to safeguard individual privacy, while fostering the advancement of health care AI.

What you will learn:

• Identifying challenges for cross-border data transfers.
• Case studies of deploying PETs.
• Enhanced proficiency with PETs’ technical elements.