Forbes January 14, 2020
David Feinberg, head of Google Health, defended the company’s partnership with large Catholic hospital system Ascension Tuesday afternoon in San Francisco. The partnership, nicknamed “Project Nightingale,” recently came under criticism after news outlets revealed the partnership enabled Google to access confidential patient data.
“Despite what they say in the newspapers, we’re super proud of it,” Feinberg said.
In November, reporters at Forbes and other publications revealed that Google partnered with Ascension to move its patient electronic medical records to the cloud and create a search tool that would allow doctors to better search those records. A whistleblower alleged that Google employees consequently had access to confidential patient data, and that several employees involved with the project had internally raised...
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