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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
Sharing 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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