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Re:Google to use patient data to develop healthcare algorith... by readams on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:28PM (#27305660)
Pretty frequently in these scare-generation articles there's no attempt to differentiate between someone using Google Cloud to do something, and Google itself doing something. Is this just a hospital chain making a deal for Google Cloud services to support their normal IT operations, or is Google actually using this data for something? If so, what is Google using the data for?
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Re:Google to use patient data to develop healthcare algorith... by pmccarren on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:31PM (#27305709)
> Google has made a deal for access to patient records from HCA, which which operates 181 hospitals and more than 2,000 healthcare sites in 21 states, _so the tech company can develop healthcare algorithms_.
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