The government is strictly implementing pseudonymization measures to protect personal information provided to the "Medical Data Space." The government is carrying out a project to build a "Medical Data Space," which develops medical AI (artificial intelligence) by jointly utilizing data from multiple hospitals.
Kim Hyeong-cheol, Director of the Korea Institute for Defense Intelligence Command Promotion (NIA), stated during the National Assembly Science and Information Communications Committee audit held on the 15th that regarding the possibility of patients' personal information who provided data to the Medical Data Space leaking externally through AI, "Information is utilized within a secure cloud, so the risk of personal information infringement is significantly low."
He added, "We are proceeding with the appropriateness of pseudonymization in accordance with the procedures of the institutional investor Bioethics Committee and the Data Review Committee," and further stated, "We will establish operational rules for patient protection as needed during the operation process."
The Medical Data Space is an advanced shared network built to develop medical AI by jointly utilizing data from multiple hospitals. The core principle is that patients' raw data are not collected on a central server; instead, each hospital retains its own data. When analysis is required, refined data are temporarily transferred to a secure zone and immediately completely deleted once the analysis is finished. Only AI training results are exported externally. Consequently, questions were raised regarding the possibility of patient personal information leaking from the AI results.
Meanwhile, pseudonymization is a method of processing personal information by deleting or replacing part of it so that specific individuals cannot be identified without additional information.
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