HITRUST Launches AI Assurance Program to Prioritize Risk Management and Cybersecurity Control Assurances for AI in Healthcare
HITRUST, the standards and certification organization, has announced the launch of its new HITRUST AI Assurance Program. Aimed at healthcare organizations, the program is designed to help develop strategies for the secure and sustainable use of artificial intelligence models. It also comes with forthcoming risk management guidance for AI systems.
The HITRUST AI Assurance Program prioritizes risk management as a foundational consideration in the updated HITRUST CSF. It enables organizations deploying AI in various use cases to engage more proactively and efficiently with AI service providers. This ensures a shared understanding of risk and accountability, allowing reliance on shared information protection controls.
The program is considered the first of its kind, focused on achieving and sharing cybersecurity control assurances for generative AI and emerging algorithm applications. Healthcare organizations using AI models face privacy and security challenges, especially with the opacity of deep neural networks.
The goal of the HITRUST AI Assurance Program is to offer a common and proven approach to security assurance. It helps healthcare organizations understand the risks associated with AI model implementation and allows them to reliably demonstrate adherence to AI risk management principles.
HITRUST is working in collaboration with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to maintain the CSF and ensure faster mapping to new regulations and data protection laws. This partnership allows for continuous updates and a scalable framework for AI security assurance.
As the healthcare industry races to adopt AI, generative AI is predicted to become a $22 billion part of the industry over the next 10 years. However, the responsible deployment of AI is crucial due to the new risks it introduces. Healthcare organizations need to take a cautious and prudent approach to exploring generative AI applications.
Robert Booker, HITRUST’s Chief Strategy Officer, emphasized that trustworthy AI requires understanding and agreement on the risks and security measures across the system. HITRUST’s AI Assurance Program provides a scalable and proven approach for AI systems to inherit the right security controls from service providers.
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