Protecting Patient Privacy in the Age of AI

About this event

AI is no longer a distant or emerging technology. It is now built into many of the tools clinicians use every day — phones, email, search engines, messaging apps, cloud storage, document editors, meeting platforms, image tools, and clinical workflows. Sometimes we use AI knowingly; at other times, it may be working quietly within familiar digital systems.
This lecture will take a practical look at patient privacy in the rapidly evolving reality of everyday AI use. Moving beyond the broader conversation on ethical digital practice, the session will focus on the everyday choices healthcare workers now face: photographing cases, storing files, sharing images, preparing teaching material, using AI prompts, creating presentations, communicating through apps, and posting online.
The aim is not to discourage the responsible use of technology, but to help healthcare workers pause before patient information is captured, processed, stored, shared, or reused. Through the ethical frame of recognizing risk, respecting patient trust, and responding with practical safeguards, the session will explore how we can protect privacy, confidentiality, dignity, and trust in an AI-normalized world.

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Who should attend?

This session is relevant for healthcare workers, teachers, postgraduate students, clinicians, diagnosticians, and anyone who captures, stores, shares, teaches with, posts, or prompts patient-related information in digital environments.