Healthcare IT News November 11, 2019
The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Google has been working since 2018 on a “secret” project involving patient data with Ascension, the St. Louis-based nationwide health system.
WHY IT MATTERS
The initiative, which WSJ said had drawn some questions, both “technological and ethical,” from some Ascension employees about how the information was being analyzed and shared, had reportedly been codenamed Project Nightingale.
Google is apparently using the data to help inform its design of new AI and machine learning software for Ascension. WSJ reports that employees at different Alphabet divisions, including Google Brain, have access to the patient information.
Until recently neither patients nor physicians knew that “at least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the...
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