Healthcare IT Today January 16, 2020
Amazon has quietly struck a data-sharing deal with England’s National Health Service giving it free access to a range of health data from British consumers. While the trove of data Amazon captured may not be as rich as those gathered by, say, Google or Apple, it’s still a pretty sweet deal, especially given that few in the US seem to have even noticed.
According to the terms of the agreement, Amazon has been given access to all NHS healthcare information other than patient records. While the data gathering is being paid for by the taxpayer-funded entity, Amazon is accessing the information free of charge.
The data Amazon is accessing comes from a contract it signed with the NHS, which wanted...
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