Google is working on a top secret project
to gathers millions of Americans' health
data across 21 states including lab tests
and diagnoses—but patients and doctors
have not been told about it
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Jennifer Smith
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
11/11/2019 5:50:19 PM
Google has been working on a top secret project with a leading healthcare company to gather millions of Americans' health data without them knowing it. The Wall Street Journal first reported on Monday that the company has teamed up with Ascension, the second largest healthcare services company in the country, for a project that was being code-named Nightingale. Within hours of the Journal's report, the two companies announced the collaboration in a press release where they announced that Ascension's data will move onto Google's Cloud platform.(Snip) Its purpose will be to 'zero in on individual patients to suggest changes
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Cherrybark 11/11/2019 6:00:36 PM (No. 232492)
OP is right about 23andMe DNA service. Google poured a bunch of money into the startup along with Genentech another firms. GlaxoSmithKline bought a big stake and has access to the data, "for drug development research. A completely anonymous pool of DNA data would be a wonderful resource for researchers. Amazing, and frankly brilliant, that these companies have found a way to gather DNA from people and actually get them to pay for handing over this most personal of information.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 11/11/2019 6:08:11 PM (No. 232496)
"..to gather millions of Americans' health data.."
sounds like a good way to gather hundreds of BILLIONS in lawsuits..
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Harlowe 11/11/2019 6:08:29 PM (No. 232497)
Interesting. Wonder about the ancestry.com DNA kits--the usage, security, and long-term protection of such information beyond sharing that data with the participant.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
stablemoney 11/11/2019 6:09:00 PM (No. 232498)
Since Google is able to collect, or already has, every bit of data on all of us, perhaps they can provide citizenship and voter registration validation to our government.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
droopydog 11/11/2019 6:10:22 PM (No. 232499)
I think we should all send them our colonoscopy photos.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 11/11/2019 6:37:31 PM (No. 232520)
Google is evil.
No good will come of this.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
davew 11/11/2019 6:51:03 PM (No. 232532)
Google is not gathering any data on its own. They are partnering with a long established health care provider, Ascension, to move patient health care records to Google's cloud service for lower cost and more reliable access. As part of this partnership they are also using Google AI tools to perform observational studies on the causes and potential drug therapies of diseases that can't be evaluated using randomized placebo controlled studies because of complexity or ethical reasons. As they have stated in their public statement they have always been compliant with the HIPPA mandated protections on patient privacy and simply using a more powerful set of tools will not change that commitment. The people at Ascension and Google have medical records in these system and are as sensitive to privacy issues as the rest of the population. Machine learning and data analytics used on medical data have the potential to save lives and discover new therapies much faster than traditional trial and error methodologies.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
crunchycon 11/11/2019 6:55:38 PM (No. 232539)
And conveniently, Google is about to purchase Fitbit, so, depending on the model, they’ll have access to the amount of exercise you take, the food you record as eating and any number of other biometric measurements, all for the price of the gadget on your wrist.
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bad-hair 11/11/2019 7:12:59 PM (No. 232548)
Yeh, so what #8 Google can have access to my medical records. So can you. I take medication for high blood pressure like my sisters do. Doc says it's hereditary. My doc prescribes medication in ever decreasing doses for cholesterol which I DON"T take but I don't tell him so. So no TOP SECRET about it. Fitbit and it's clones are just another I-phone BS reason for STUPID millennials to SPEND money
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
curious1 11/11/2019 7:23:58 PM (No. 232551)
Well, if you thought mother earth had too many people, or too many Americans, what better way to see if there is a way to safely remove them using a biological approach. For that you'd want lots of data right down to the DNA level and plenty of computing power and AI support. Never forget, googlies is evil, and the types running things there and at its parent are, too.
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ussjimmycarter 11/11/2019 7:42:22 PM (No. 232561)
Does anyone seriously want their health data turned over to Google? There is no cloud! It is a large array of storage and retrieval devises! Servers attached to disk and even tape arrays! I don’t want Google involved and I would think HIPPA should prevent them but it probably won’t!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/11/2019 9:51:13 PM (No. 232624)
Class Action lawsuit time!! My HIPA form mentions nothing about Google/Alphabet or anyone else outside those mentioned knowing anything about me.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Wendybird 11/11/2019 9:56:52 PM (No. 232627)
HIPPA was an unnecessary farce from the beginning. Supposedly it was to insure that a person could change employment without loosing his insurance. Presently, people use it to frighten physicians with divulging their medical information. Most insurance companies have their customers (victims) sign a waiver to have free access to their entire medical record whenever they want, as a condition of taking their money for a policy, (which we all know is “necessary just in case". So we get to pay many fold more for medical care than it should cost, and the Insurance company executives and agents get to have a dozen homes on nice lakes and ski mountains. Confidential medical information, an ageless agreement between patient and physician, no longer exists.
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There is a new wrinkle. It seems if you see an oncologist, you are sent for genetic testing that revels nothing of significance . Later I saw Medicare now pays for genetic testing.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Trigger2 11/12/2019 4:04:28 AM (No. 232701)
A class action lawsuit should immediately follow.
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By sheer coincidence, one of the founder's ex-wives runs one of the big DNA collection companies, making for data mining at the deepest level. Only a nut would wonder on whose behalf all of this was being done, and why it's permitted despite assurances about all the safeguards in place for our health data.