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Through Partnership, Google Has Access to Millions of Health Records

By Nick Bastone
· · Source: The Wall Street Journal

Google has been collecting detailed health records of millions of Americans since last year, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.  The internal initiative, known as “Project Nightingale,” is part of a partnership with Ascension, a healthcare system. Google is using the data to help train its AI and machine learning-based health products that can suggest changes to a patient’s care, the...

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