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Reaching out to Healthcare Sector – Privacy Commissioner Spoke at the AI and Big Data Research for Health Improvement Symposium

The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Privacy Commissioner), Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, spoke as a panellist at the panel discussion entitled “Future of Big Data Application for Public Health in Hong Kong” held on 31 August 2022 at the “AI and Big Data Research for Health Improvement Symposium”.

The Privacy Commissioner discussed the personal data privacy issues faced by the healthcare sector and shared her views on how big data can be used to facilitate research in healthcare while safeguarding patients’ privacy.  The Privacy Commissioner highlighted that since medical records are sensitive personal data, the healthcare sector should, aside from building trust with patients, also adopt particularly stringent measures in handling patients’ medical records.

The Symposium was jointly organised by the HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science, the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, and the Hong Kong Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry.

The Privacy Commissioner spoke as a panellist at the “AI and Big Data Research for Health Improvement Symposium”. Other panellists include Dr Tony KO, Chief Executive of the Hospital Authority; Prof LAU Chak Sing, Dean of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong; Prof Ian CK WONG, Head of Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, The University of Hong Kong;  Dr Calvin HO, Co-director of Centre for Medical Ethics and Law and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong; and Mr KP TSANG, Chairman of Rare Disease Hong Kong.