Private Equity and A.I. in Healthcare:  A Perilous Pairing for Patient Privacy

Abstract

The American healthcare system faces two trends that not only threaten the quality of care but also patient privacy: private equity acquisitions in the healthcare sector, and the incursion of AI-supported technology. While law enforcement efforts have focused on private equity’s anticompetitive effects in healthcare, attention has not yet turned to the privacy harms. To mitigate the harms to patient privacy, this Article proposes expanding upon already-existing pre-merger reporting requirements to include enhanced transparency of private equity’s data governance plans when utilizing AI systems.