Google Has Collected Health Data On Millions Of Americans Through New Partnership

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Google has partnered with one of the largest health care systems in the country to collect data on millions of American patients, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The venture, called Project Nightingale, allows Google to obtain access to personal health care data from Americans across 21 states through its partnership with Ascension, people familiar with the matter told the Journal, which also relied on internal documents for its report.

The data Google has access to includes lab results, doctor diagnoses, hospitalization records and health histories with names and date of births. Neither patients nor doctors were informed that Google was collecting the data, according to the Journal, and at least 150 Google employees have access to the information.

Read more at The Hill.

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  1. Scary shock headline with no basis in fact.. Read the article in the link. This is a private partnership where Google is helping Ascension develop apps and store their data. Only the Google employees working on the project have access to the data, and they are covered by the proper HIPAA agreements. It’s no different than a company hiring a software consultant to develop a program for them.

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