GDPR Impacts and Opportunities for Computer-Aided Diagnosis Guidelines and Legal Perspectives

Abstract

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is lengthy and it is essential to resume the impacts of it in specific use-cases to diminish the gap between system developers and regulators. Computer-aided diagnosis is one of such use-cases with increased importance on clinical screening programs. The regulation has distinct mentions that affect automated-decision solutions and healthcare records. This work identifies the fundamental legal issues, challenges and opportunities for this scenario and propose architectural guidelines to tackle them. The result is purely theoretical, however it is based on known architectures such as signaling networks, already applied in the telecommunication sector.