Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Triggers Federal Inquiry (WSJ)
Deal with Ascension health system aimed at improving patient care provides Google with health-data gold mine
By Rob Copeland and Sarah E. Needleman Updated Nov. 12, 2019 11:13 pm ET
Google’s project with the country’s second-largest health system to collect detailed health information on 50 million American patients sparked a federal inquiry and criticism from patients and lawmakers.
The data on patients of St. Louis-based Ascension were until recently scattered across 40 data centers in more than a dozen states. Google and the Catholic nonprofit are moving that data into Google’s cloud-computing system—with potentially big changes on tap for doctors and patients.
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