Episode #108. Insights on Cybersecurity, AI, and Trust, with Jared Jeffery, CEO and founder of healthKERI

How do you secure healthcare data in a world of rising cyber threats while navigating the complexities of innovation, personal resilience, and emerging AI challenges?

In this episode, Jared Jeffery discusses the importance of securing healthcare data exchange and ensuring data integrity for emerging AI applications. Drawing inspiration from blockchain technology, healthKERI focuses on enhancing key rotation and cryptographic security without the scalability issues of traditional blockchain implementations. Jeffery emphasizes the role of data integrity in preventing attacks like synthetic data injection that could compromise AI models.

Tune in as Jared Jeffery dives into the future of secure healthcare data exchange, shares his groundbreaking approaches to cybersecurity, and opens up about the personal journey that fuels his mission!

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Show Notes

About Jared Jeffery:

For over a decade, Jared has worked on the interoperability problem in healthcare. From helping disabled Americans gather their (then-paper) medical records to helping KLAS Research shine a light on healthcare’s progress, Jared is dedicated to the vision of what healthcare can become through technology.

He has an MBA in healthcare management and is a fellow of the American College of Health Data Management. Jared frequently speaks as an expert for various industry events, including Silicon Slopes, the Healthcare IT Marketing Conference (HITmc), Health Data Management, Cambia Grove, and others.

Things You’ll Learn:

Effective healthcare data exchange requires addressing vulnerabilities like shared secrets and trust mechanisms, with innovative tools like KERI enabling stronger security and key management.
While blockchain has limitations in healthcare scalability, its security features can be adapted for decentralized, interoperable solutions without requiring a universal chain.
As AI adoption grows, ensuring the trustworthiness of input and output data is critical to prevent malicious manipulations, which can destabilize AI models.
Successful innovation hinges on deeply understanding customer needs before developing solutions to avoid building products that fail to address real-world challenges.
Jared’s journey as a cancer survivor underscores the importance of determination and adaptability in overcoming life’s challenges, both personally and professionally.

Resources:

Connect with and follow Jared Jeffery on LinkedIn.
Follow healthKERI on LinkedIn and discover their website!