Healthcare IT Today January 22, 2020
This is the tale of a quiet effort by Facebook to take over (more of) our lives, in this case by sliding laterally into the healthcare business and collecting data on our medical habits.
What I’m about to share draws on a story appearing in The Atlantic laying out how Facebook might be able to leverage harmless-seeming preventive care reminders to re-institute its more aggressive plans for our health data.
As some readers will recall, in 2018, Facebook kicked off a projected intended to combine its user information with hospital-patient data to improve patient outcomes. The project, which was spearheaded by a mysterious-sounding Facebook group known as Building 8, would eventually create technology offering providers updates on, among other things,...
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