{"id":241238,"date":"2026-05-07T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/the-privacy-risks-of-embedded-shadow-ai-in-healthcare\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:10:07","slug":"the-privacy-risks-of-embedded-shadow-ai-in-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/the-privacy-risks-of-embedded-shadow-ai-in-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Privacy Risks of Embedded, Shadow AI in Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/interviews\/privacy-risks-embedded-shadow-ai-in-healthcare-i-5546\">The Privacy Risks of Embedded, Shadow AI in Healthcare<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/interviews\/privacy-risks-embedded-shadow-ai-in-healthcare-i-5546\">https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/interviews\/privacy-risks-embedded-shadow-ai-in-healthcare-i-5546<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 17:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bankinfosecurity.com\">www.bankinfosecurity.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence stealthily embedded into newer editions of software and other technology tools is a risk on par with shadow AI, said regulatory attorney Elizabeth Hodge with the law firm Akerman LLP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are applications, software, tools or services that vendors are providing that historically did not incorporate AI, but now they have,&#8221; Hodge said. Sometimes the vendors will inform the customers, but sometimes they don&#8217;t, she said.  <\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s important to ask and scrutinize where vendors might be incorporating AI into their products, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consider doing a risk analysis of which of those applications, products, services, etc. potentially use the most data, or would pose the greatest risk to the organization if data was used improperly,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Focus on those vendors &#8211; reach out to them, have your information security team or contracts team review periodically your vendors,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have them answer questions about their use of AI, so you have a better understanding of the risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the interview (see audio link below photo), Hodge also discussed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Risk considerations involving shadow AI;<\/li>\n<li>Privacy issues involving the use of de-identified patient data in AI tools &#8211; including the risk of re-identification;<\/li>\n<li>HIPAA and other reportable data breach considerations involving AI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hodge is a partner in law firm Akerman&#8217;s healthcare and data privacy practices. She focuses on compliance and regulatory issues affecting healthcare providers, payers and employer-sponsored health plans. Hodge is also the chair of the American Health Law Association&#8217;s Health and Information Technology Practice Group, an author and frequent speaker on healthcare law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/interviews\/privacy-risks-embedded-shadow-ai-in-healthcare-i-5546\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Privacy Risks of Embedded, Shadow AI in Healthcare https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/interviews\/privacy-risks-embedded-shadow-ai-in-healthcare-i-5546 Publish Date: 2026-05-07 17:01:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ismg-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/interviews\/privacy-risks-embedded-shadow-ai-in-healthcare-image_medium-8-i-5546.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-241238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy","tag-breach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241240,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241238\/revisions\/241240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}