Becker's Healthcare November 12, 2019
Eduardo Conrado, executive vice president of strategy and innovations for St. Louis-based Ascension, has shared several reactions to the Nov. 11 Wall Street Journal report that Ascension and Google began a secret partnership, coined Project Nightingale, in 2018 that allowed the tech giant to amass personal health information on millions of patients.
Becker’s summarized the WSJ article here, noting the WSJ’s reporting that the data collection was done covertly and Ascension physicians and patients across 21 states had not been informed about the data-sharing. This is a claim that Mr. Conrado challenges in his commentary.
Below is Mr. Conrado’s commentary in full, which was first published on the Ascension website and can be found here. It was published by Becker’s...
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