Fast Company November 15, 2019
After a report that Google is accessing 50 million patient records without people’s knowledge, its future in the medical field may depend on regaining people’s trust.
This week, Google was strung up in the public square for a deal with a very large U.S. healthcare provider that netted it access to some 50 million patient healthcare records—without patients’ or doctors’ knowledge. As Google pushes more deeply into healthcare, Americans are left wondering whether they’re unwittingly handing over personal information to a company that has a history of mishandling it.
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal broke a story about how healthcare provider Ascension was providing Google with access...
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