Google to use patient data to develop healthcare algorithms for hospital chain

Re:Google to use patient data to develop healthcare algorith... by yhoneycomb on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:29AM (#27304253)

For the unaware - this particular hospital chain (HCA) is super, super shady.

It's a for-profit institution, which is alarming in and of itself when the bar for hospitals to be nonprofit is so low (and when most of the "non-profit" hospitals are essentially for profit institutions anyway.)

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Re:Google to use patient data to develop healthcare algorith... by wfhbata on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:47PM (#27305129)

> when most of the "non-profit" hospitals are essentially for profit institutions anyway

This sounds worse than a for-profit institution declaring itself as a for-profit institution.

What is it about the chain that is “super, super shady”?

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Re:Google to use patient data to develop healthcare algorith... by yhoneycomb on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:23PM (#27308731)

> HCA Inc. (formerly known as Columbia/HCA and HCA - The Healthcare Company) has agreed to pay the United States $631 million in civil penalties and damages arising from false claims the government alleged it submitted to Medicare and other federal health programs, the Justice Department announced today.

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386....

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