A look at Google's healthcare efforts, like Project Nightingale and “Guardian” search tool, which are drawing scrutiny over mass collection of medical records
“There's a disbelief that what we say we're doing is what we are actually doing. And I think that's Google's fault,” says Google Health's David Feinberg https://www.wsj.com/...
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Dr Gail Barnes on x
A partnership w/ Mayo Clinic allows Google access to personally identifiable information when needed. When the arrangement was announced in September, the hospital system said publicly that data wouldn't include names or other identifiable details. https://www.wsj.com/...
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Frank Pasquale on x
“The deals allow Google to access personally identifiable health information without the knowledge of patients or doctors. The company can review complete health records, including names, dates of birth, medications and other ailments” https://www.wsj.com/...
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“In just a few years, Google has achieved the ability to view or analyze tens of millions of patient health records in at least three-quarters of U.S. states...” https://www.wsj.com/...
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Google has achieved the ability to view or analyze tens of millions of patient health records in at least three-quarters of U.S. states. Here's what that means for health care and privacy. https://www.wsj.com/...
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Bob Wachter on x
@WSJ w/ another big piece on @Google's efforts to acquire health data: not just @Ascensionorg but also @Intermountain. & @MayoClinic deal more complex than previously reported https://www.wsj.com/... Related podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/... Interesting quotes from David Fe…
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Olivier Elemento on x
Important @wsj article. Most appalling IMO is the willingness of some medical systems to share medical record data with Google without patient consent, without asking what they will do with it and frankly with little if anything in return for patients https://twitter.com/...
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Dan Gillmor on x
WSJ: As Google gets more and more of our health data (often without our knowledge or permission), its test is “convincing the public that it can be trusted with our most personal information.” Narrator: It can't. https://www.wsj.com/...
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Eric Topol on x
On the @GoogleHealth deals with health systems for data access https://www.wsj.com/... by @realrobcopeland @DanaMattioli @_melaevans Much of the concerns would be preempted if patients owned their data and agreed to share https://twitter.com/...
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Dana Mattioli on x
Google wants patient health records so badly that it dangled $250 million in credits & the potential to buy services from Cerner to try and woo the healthcare company onto its cloud w/ @realrobcopeland @_melaevans https://www.wsj.com/...