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Story By Richard Pallardy
- IT executives are under ever-increasing levels of strain as growing threat levels complicate a tech skills gap and talent shortage. Studies indicate that people in leadership positions are expected to be more resistant to mental health problems, but IT execs appear to be particularly vulnerable given the nature of their roles.
- Industry leaders are now looking at how to address these executive mental health issues. IT leaders may be susceptible to mental health issues as they are responsible for hugely consequential aspects of the business. “We may understand that they’re more important than we thought they were,” says
Andrew Shatte'
Andrew Shatté, chief knowledge officer and co-founder of meQuilibrium. “But the distance between them and the rest of the organization creates a greater mental health risk.”
- While it is a challenging ask for IT executives, increased funding and staff resources would likely mitigate the factors afflicting their mental health. IT execs can also encourage the discussion of mental health issues among their peers and subordinates, as well as facilitate mental health awareness programs.
- Healthcare industry compliance often fall short as an AI strategy: Chief AI officers, CIOs, and CISOs need to prioritize responsible AI usage to minimize potential data breaches that could not only lead to fines and litigation, but also reputational damage.
- “It’s really a trust factor,” says Dave Meyer, chief data and AI officer at value-based care platform Reveleer. “[Public healthcare information or] PHI is paramount in healthcare, so we have to treat it responsibly. No one in our organization, including data scientists, has access to anything they don’t need to access. Data access needs to be strictly governed.”
- One of healthcare’s biggest challenges is failing to understand that the accuracy of a prediction can, and often does, vary with use cases. Since healthcare organizations need highly sensitive patient information to provide diagnoses and treatment, the confidence level matters greatly.
Podcast hosted by
Joao-Pierre Ruth
- The early months of the AI craze saw incidents where businesses’ proprietary code was released into the wild after being fed to AI. There have also been concerns about AI being tapped to launch cyberattacks, as well as AI used within organizations creating unintended access opportunities bad actors might leverage.
- There are several new risks -- internal and external – that CIOs and CISOs must consider when it comes to AI. CIOs must also consider the complications that come from bringing a new, third-party AI model in-house, especially as more models emerge.
- In this episode of the DOS Won’t Hunt podcast, InformationWeek Senior Editor Joao-Pierre S. Ruth discusses these and other AI-related issues with Carl Froggett, CIO for Deep Instinct; Rob Lee, chief of research and head of faculty at SANS Institute; and Mike Levin, CISO and general counsel with Solera Health.
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