Posted on 11/11/2019 1:01:01 PM PST by ransomnote
Google is engaged with one of the country’s largest health-care systems to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states.
The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the largest in a series of efforts by Silicon Valley giants to gain access to personal health data and establish a toehold in the massive health-care industry. Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are also aggressively pushing into health care, though they haven’t yet struck deals of this scope.
Google began the effort in secret last year with St. Louis-based Ascension, the second-largest health system in the U.S., with the data sharing accelerating since summer, the documents show.
The data involved in Project Nightingale encompasses lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, including patient names and dates of birth.
Neither patients nor doctors have been notified. At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter and documents.
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My Doc's office got ransomwared last year and now only have written records.
I wonder if Google is buying health information from government agencies like OSHPD in California? OSHPD has hundreds of millions of people’s health care records dating back to the 1980s.
Play with them and ask about gun shot wounds, radiation exposure, anthrax exposure, and etc.
bkmk
A couple days after my wife was in the hospital for a serious illness I started getting health care ads (text) on my dumb phone and our home phone but not my wife’s smart phone.
Friends and family had been posting on Farcebook. I do not have a Farcebook account but somehow they or Gurgle got my number.
“Which is why you should always add “Asking for a friend” to your searches.”
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There’s an idea!
Quick, everybody go to Google and search “brain transplant”
“A couple days after my wife was in the hospital for a serious illness I started getting health care ads (text) on my dumb phone”
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Had a close relative who was in intensive care for a good while - I got some snail mail ads from funeral homes.
HIPAA laws are for the little people.
Google is evil.
De-google your life.
If they’re ever charged with a crime, by the time it gets to the SC, they’ll already have made copies of everything and everyone 10 times over.
they just bought fitbit also
same issue
however....google is far bigger than any government, so not sure if they are afraid of hipaa?
My brother has a neat trick that chews the Google algorithm up for days at a time. Real fun to do as well.
Google doesn't write code to discern disinformation.
“Google doesn’t write code to discern disinformation.”
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True, tho I expect it has some kind of “filtering” somewhere. But yeah, you could declare yourself Superman and it is gospel to Google.
They don’t give a crap about any type of law or Hippa violations. That stuff is for the little people, don’t you know?
Google is evil.
De-google your life.
Problem is no other search engines come close to the amount of info google offers.
My daughter got a speeding ticket recently. Within one week she started getting snail mail attorneys, ticket clinics, driving schools
All the big tech companies are spying on you through your iPhone. Every time there’s an update to an iPhone, you get all these neat new new apps. On my last update there was a Health app placed on my phone. Dumb people think oh how cool. I can count my steps yay! These apps are not to help you
Yeah, that’s how it goes. Though I think that’s more just a matter of subscribing a government list than anything google-related. Everything is for sale.
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