Australia's biggest radiology clinic I-MED has handed over private medical scans from potentially 100,000s of Australians to buzzy tech startup Harrison. ai to train their AI — and patients had no idea.

Neither company responded to questions about it.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/19/patient-scan-data-train-artificial-intelligence-consent/

Australia’s biggest medical imaging lab is training AI on its scan data. Patients have no idea

Australia's biggest radiology chain I-MED let start-up Harrison.ai use its patient scans to train AI. There's no public information showing patients consented.

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@camwilson my god the level of entitlement in this country is off the charts
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Health Minister?
AMA?
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Just had some x-rays last week with an I-MED clinic. There was no forms to read and sign. Just present the referral, give details, and done.
@camwilson UK's NHS is on the same trajectory
@camwilson I hope that at bare minimum they were deidentified.

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I can't even get my own scan pictures for myself (Finland) when asking to have copy of them for myself, yet now I need to fear that the data could be sold off to train AI? Australia is not likely to be only country to do this/to have done this....

Future is bleak.
This really is the darkest timeline. (=_=)

At this point they're using AI as a smokescreen for tracking and surveillance.

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@camwilson not this shit again. How often do we want to make the same mistake? You will not reliably detect any disease by training AI on X-rays.

Besides, why would I take a day off, make an appointment, drive into a hospital, let a technician pump a questionable amount of radiation into my body just for them to press a button that spits out

Cancer: 82.163%
Pneumonia 73.827%
Pneumonic Plague: 12.228%

If I go through all of that, I want to talk to a human and ask questions and get a proper opinion that they can actually base on actual science and not only visual similarities without context.