VentureBeat June 20, 2021
Tom Kelly, IDX

On May 26, Google and HCA Healthcare, a national hospital chain, announced a data sharing partnership that will provide the internet giant with access to a host of patient records and real-time medical information. But what is being cast by both companies as a win for improved patient treatments and outcomes is hardly a victory for consumers.

Google has a dark history of exploiting personal data for profit. Going back to at least Project Nightingale, Google has collected and monetized sensitive patient data from millions of Americans. The HCA agreement will put an enormous quantity of new patient data into Google’s hands, and some have already pointed out how similar the HCA agreement looks to data sharing arrangement that powered...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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