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The Joint Commission is kicking off a new voluntary certification program for hospitals and critical access hospitals’ responsible use of health data. The effort aims to help address growing privacy concerns over the secondary use of patient data by third parties for artificial intelligence initiatives, algorithms, medical discovery and other activities.
The U.S. healthcare quality and safety accreditation organization said on Tuesday that its new Responsible Use of Health Data certification, or RUHD, will cover several key areas of secondary data use.