Digitally protecting patient information

Eric Anderson (eanderson@clearwaveinc.com) is COO of Clearwave in Atlanta, GA.

Digital healthcare technologies, like those powered by artificial intelligence (AI), are transforming patient-provider interactions — and 66% of healthcare executives believe some of these innovations fall into a gray area of regulatory compliance.[1]

The trends extend even beyond that of telemedicine, smartphone applications, and wearable technology. Today, virtual assistants like Amazon’s Alexa not only answer consumers’ health questions, but have also been trained by the American Heart Association (AHA) to recite instructions for CPR in an instant. Meanwhile, according to a recent survey, 63% of healthcare organizations now use cloud-based clinical applications to fulfill the need for scalable, flexible, and reliable infrastructure solutions.[2]

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