Rob Copeland and Sarah E. Needleman report: 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….
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MI: ‘I felt so betrayed.’ Woman sues Beaumont after medical records turn up on social media
Jenn Schanz reports: When a woman went to Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak for treatment after a sexual assault, she never thought her personal medical information would end up on social media. “I felt so betrayed. I felt the lowest I ever felt in my life,” said the woman, who asked that we not use…
Google’s Secret ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans
Rob Copeland reports: Google is teaming with one of the country’s largest health-care systems on a secret project to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states, according to people familiar with the matter and internal documents. The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the largest in…
All children to receive whole genome sequencing at birth, under ambitions laid out by Matt Hancock
I realize that there are people who will cheer this or support this approach in the U.K., but I think I’m feeling sick reading this news report that Joe Cadillic sent over. Laura Donnelly reports: All children will be able to receive whole genome sequencing at birth, under ambitions laid out by the Health Secretary….