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Google has access to detailed health records on tens of millions of Americans
Google quietly partnered last year with Ascension—the country's second-largest health system—and has since gained access to detailed medical records on tens of millions of Americans, according to a November 11 report by The Wall Street Journal.
The endeavor, code-named "Project Nightingale," has enabled at least 150 Google employees to see patient health information, which includes diagnoses, laboratory test results, hospitalization records, and other data, according to internal documents and the newspaper's sources. In all, the data amounts to complete medical records, WSJ notes, and contains patient names and birth dates.
The move is the latest by Google to get a grip on the sprawling health industry. At the start of the month, Google announced a deal to buy Fitbit, prompting concerns over what it will do with all the sensitive health data amassed from the popular wearables. Today's news will likely spur more concern over health privacy issues.
Neither Google nor Ascension has notified patients or doctors about the data sharing. Ascension—a Catholic, non-profit health system—includes 34,000 providers who see patients at more than 2,600 hospitals, doctor offices, and other facilities across 21 states and the District of Columbia.
[...] Both Google and Ascension said that the project is compliant with federal health information privacy protections and is "underpinned by a robust data security and protection effort."
Health privacy experts told WSJ that the project appears to be legal under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). As the newspaper notes, the law "generally allows hospitals to share data with business partners without telling patients, as long as the information is used 'only to help the covered entity carry out its health care functions.'"
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday November 12 2019, @09:13PM (6 children)
Stay in good shape. Age will catch up with you anyway. Sooner or later you'll see doctors.
Don't believe you'll be young forever. Age catches up with you faster than you can believe.
I remember years ago telling my daughter when she started high school that the next four years would go by so fast she wouldn't believe it. On graduation day she could look back and realize how quickly it all past. I reminded her of it later, and she agreed. (The same advice I had been given, btw.)
Just remember that Google will keep you safe from Facebook gathering all of your personal information.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Tuesday November 12 2019, @09:16PM (4 children)
Very sarcastic. It's like having to choose between the plague and cholera...
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12 2019, @10:20PM (2 children)
Because they're doing a good job of fucking you in the ass either way.
Also Steve Jobs was a homo, it's the only was to explain his pancreatic cancer!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12 2019, @10:52PM (1 child)
Someone is upset they can't afford their colonoscopy co-pay!!
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday November 14 2019, @12:54AM
Colonoscopy can detect colon cancer, but it's not likely to detect pancreatic cancer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @01:39AM
Shover Robot: Don't trust the Pusher Robot. He is malfunctioning. I will protect you!
Pusher Robot: .... etc
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 13 2019, @01:48AM
Seeing doctors, only one step better than seeing dead people.
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