Dauber: HIPAA puts the US at a material disadvantage in healthcare AI
Mike Dauber · Venture Capital Investor Panel: Investing in Big Data (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark) · Sep 30, 2016 · at 27:37
Mike Dauber is a General Partner at Amplify Partners. During a panel at Data Driven NYC, he argues that US HIPAA privacy laws obstruct the aggregation of training data needed for deep learning in healthcare.
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“And I think the United States is gonna be at a material disadvantage on the healthcare side for this reason, where I think, ah, as a patient, and as, ah, a son or a father, You know, I appreciate the HIPAA laws, and I think they're, they have all these good intentions, but in terms of, like, creating training data for deep learning systems, they're terrible, right?”
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