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Project Nightingale is a plan to move Ascension data onto Google's cloud services, add collaboration and G-Suite tools, and then build an electronic health records search tool. The ultimate goal is to improve the healthcare experience for patients, Ascension said. Ascension is transferring the personal and medical information of 50 million Ascension patients onto Google's cloud network. The Wall Street Journal firstIn return, Google gains access to the data, a source with knowledge of the matter told Business Insider. The source asked not to be identified because the information isn't public.
Google's Tariq Shaukat said the partnership is "a business arrangement to help a provider with the latest technology, similar to the work we do with dozens of other healthcare providers." As of November 2019, about 20 million patients' information has been uploaded to Google's Cloud services, with the remaining 30 million to be completed by February 2020, the source said.
The data collected in the Google-Ascension partnership includes: name, contact information, diagnoses, and medication orders, according to internal documents. The Ascension data that Google employees have access to includes patients' names and other personal information, according to the documents.
What a great group of ppl to have everyone’s PHI.
Will they be paying a nice and fair share of the taxes necessary to help finance national health services that can save lives directly? ;)