In March, Amazon broadly launched a health AI bot to pull a patient’s medical history and answer questions about their health. The bot, launched through One Medical, is causing a kerfuffle among health tech leaders.
Members of Carequality, a framework that health institutions use to access patient medical records, are debating whether a bot should be able to access patient data as someone involved in the treatment of a patient, according to two people familiar with the matter.
To be clear, Amazon’s primary care clinic, One Medical, is a legitimate care organization that employs doctors and nurses. The discussion is over whether AI should be able to request data for patient treatment.
Carequality and Amazon did not return a request for comment.
Why does that matter? The big fear is that Amazon’s health AI will inspire a wave of bot-driven apps posing as telehealth providers to fraudulently access lucrative patient data.
At the heart of the issue is a discrepancy over how patients and doctors get health data.
Doctors can hop on the Carequality network and access patient data pretty immediately.
Patients must use certified apps. These app developers have to jump through a lot of hoops to prove they are requesting data on behalf of a verified patient.
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