Lexology December 13, 2019
This article was originally featured as a privacy and security advisory on DWT.com on December 12, 2019. Our editors have chosen to feature this article here for its coinciding subject matter.
News broke last month that Google partnered with the second-largest health system in the U.S., Ascension Healthcare, to collect and analyze the health information of millions of patients in a program code-named “Project Nightingale.” Under Project Nightingale, Ascension transfers its patients’ health information, including personally identifiable demographic, treatment and diagnostic information, to Google’s systems.
Google then uses this data in part to create new software that runs on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) that helps process data and make suggestions about a patient’s diagnosis and prescriptions, as well as recommendations...