AI, Medicine and the Ownership of Your Health Data

Implications?   How will users sign up for sharing, usage, reapplication?

In the future, A.I. medicine will let patients own their health data
As A.I. takes over the grunt work, doctors can get back to healing

A.I. has the power to transform the world — at least that’s what we’re constantly being told. Yes, it powers voice assistants and robotic dogs, but there are some legitimate areas where A.I. is not only making things easier and more convenient. In the case of medicine and health care, it’s actually saving lives.

There has been pushback lately, though. Medical professionals and government officials are bullish about the long-term potential of artificial intelligence’s transformative powers, but researchers are taking a more cautious and measured approach to implementation. In just the past year, we’ve seen huge leaps forward that take A.I.’s potential in medical care and turn it into a reality.

Today, we stand on the brink of a significant transformation in how we’ll all experience and use our medical data in the future.

A.I. IN A BROKEN SYSTEM
“We became serious about it as a discipline maybe five years ago, but my whole career I’ve been haunted by the need for this technology,” Dr. Richard White told Digital Trends about the institution’s foray into A.I. He’s the chair of radiology at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center

“It’s up to the patient and the doctors to try to fix it, because we are the agents of the last resort.”

“For the longest time, I could not figure out why there wasn’t a use for computers to replicate what humans are doing: to laboriously look through all the images that were dynamic and try to come up with this, and then have the computer make the same mistakes that I was making was very frustrating for at least three decades.”   .... " 

Who Owns Precise Data Descriptions of Things?

Fascinating look at the ownership of metadata.  Here a more precise description of things that have ever been created.  And then that description allows to do analytics that we could never have done before.  Even analyses we still have not thought of yet.  Fascinating view of who is doing this and the approaches involved.  And then the ownership problem.

Who Owns 3D Scans of Historic Sites?   By Esther Shein 
Communications of the ACM, January 2019, Vol. 62 No. 1, Pages 15-17
10.1145/3290410  ... "

Who Owns the Data?

In CIO Today:  Who owns the IOT data?  Key legal challenge, with likely considerable differences globally.  Also a big part of understanding data as an asset.

The Ownership of Geolocation Data

Good discussion of the ownership of location data in retail.