Project Nightingale: The Need to Connect Data with Dignity

by Ann Mongoven, Ph.D. Informed by a Google employee-whistleblower, the Wall Street Journal recently broke a story about a controversial collaboration between Catholic healthcare giant Ascension Health and Google. Ascension hospitals provided Google identifiable medical data for cloud storage and analysis without the knowledge or consent of patients. Ironically named “Project Nightingale,” this clandestine data-sharing violated both specific commitments of Catholic healthcare and general expectations of American patients. The Department of Health and Human Services has launched an investigation into whether the contract between Ascension and Google violates privacy law.…
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