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Healthcare organizations want the same thing from AI that every other business wants: faster answers, less manual work, and insights that reach decision-makers in time to act on them. However, what makes the healthcare industry different is that the data is uniquely complex, deeply contextual, and strictly regulated. So this post starts with a few definitions to set the foundation for everything that follows.
Protected Health Information (PHI) is any information that identifies a person and relates to their health, care, or payment for care, such as a medical note, a claim, or a member ID. When software touches PHI, it falls under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the federal law that governs how PHI data is accessed, secured, and audited.
Agentic AI changes what it means for software to “touch PHI.” A traditional analytics tool reads data and returns a response. An agentic workspace like Amazon...
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