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The tricky ethics of Google's Project Nightingale, an effort to learn from millions of health records

  • Written by Cason Schmit, Assistant Professor of Public Health, Texas A&M University
The tricky ethics of Google's Project Nightingale, an effort to learn from millions of health recordsSharing electronic medical records broadly could identify trends as well as mistakes, but it also poses privacy concerns.Metamorworks/Shutterstock.com

The nation’s second-largest health system, Ascension, has agreed to allow the software behemoth Google access to tens of millions of patient records. The partnership, called Project...

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