Working Alongside AI Bunny Ellerin is the co-founder and CEO of Digital Health New York (DHNY). She also Bunny Ellerin serves on Thoropass’ Health Advisory Board. New can be scary. And in any industry other than Yes, health leaders should be careful in protecting propriety and technology, AI–its use and regulation–is still very much patient data that is entered into LLMs. Frameworks like HIPAA and NIST new. Health industry observers would be right to be are as important as ever for protecting PHI. But as health-related careful (if not skeptical) of AI’s use in our highly companies face projected budgeting and stang limitations regulated industry. But as the data in this report shows, (especially in rural or aging seings), AI is rightfully stepping in to instead of running away from AI, many insiders are automate some of the most burdensome data-related work needed running toward it for one really good reason: its ability for companies to keep up. to help the health industry take control of its data. One way to ensure that AI works ethically with current systems is to follow guidelines related to ISO 42001, an updated compliance According to RBC Capital Markets, an estimated 36% of the world’s framework specific to AI adoption and use. Likewise, regular 7 pentesting (including pentesting specific to AI systems) can help data will be health-related by the end of 2025 . But lots of that data–up to 90%--is unstructured. All of the handwrien reports, untagged fields, ensure that data leakage and ethical best practices are in use. and information shared between new and legacy systems could be le behind, as good as useless. What’s become clear since ChatGPT took over the tech world’s conversations in 2023 is that AI is not fading away any time soon. As This is why so many executives are seeing AI (and closely related our phones and cars utilize this world-changing technology, it’s now machine learning) as a solution to help them keep up. At a time where inevitable that our health-related companies, too, will be altered health data is rising (and aackers are seeing it as 10x as valuable as forever. The opportunity for us all is to learn as quickly as possible how credit card data), the industry is also seeing more mergers and to harness them to make us even more ecient and eective. acquisitions, more third parties entering the supply chain, and more legacy systems working alongside the most cuing edge Internet of Things medical devices. State of Health Security 2025 | 8