Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a larger role in businesses of all types. Companies are deploying different types of AI (e.g., machine learning and deep neural networks) across a wide variety of applications, including logistics. In fact, a recent McKinsey Global Institute report indicates that AI could produce up to $2 trillion in additional value in supply chain management and manufacturing.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies a strict regime when personal data is transferred outside EU territory. In principle, it requires that an equivalent level of protection and safeguards are still afforded to such data, when this is processed outside European soil.

Since the period for opting out of My Health Record began on July 16, experts in health, privacy and IT have raised concerns about the security and privacy protections of the system, and the legislation governing its operation.

My hospital sent me a medical records release form as a PDF file. They told me that I was to print it, fill it, sign it, scan it and return it to the medical records department, in that order. In 2018, to be receiving the form via email (i.e., electronically), yet being asked to print it? Frustrating.