Google Seems To Have Really Hit A Nerve With Its Plan For The Health Data From A Large Hospital System.

The fuss all started with a report from the WSJ early last week.Google ’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans Search giant is amassing health records from Ascension facilities in 21 states; patients not yet informed By Rob Copeland Updated Nov. 11, 2019 4:27 pm ET Google is engaged with one of the country’s largest health -care systems to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states.The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the biggest in a series of efforts by Silicon Valley giants to gain access to personal health data and establish a toehold in the massive health-care industry. Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are also aggressively pushing into health care, though they haven’t yet struck deals of this scope.Google began Project Nightingale in secret last year with St. Louis-based Ascension, the second-largest health system in the U.S., with the data... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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