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    Patient-Directed Uses vs. The Platform

    By Adrian Gropper, MD This post originally appeared on The Health Care Blog. This piece is part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? Privacy? Both?” which explores whether it’s possible to advance interoperability while maintaining privacy. Check out other pieces in the series here. It’s 2023. Alice, a patient at Ascension Seton Medical…

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  • Read more: The Right Lesson from the Google-Ascension Patient Privacy Story
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    The Right Lesson from the Google-Ascension Patient Privacy Story

    By I. Glenn Cohen As has been well reported in the media, there is a controversy brewing over nonprofit hospital chain Ascension sharing millions of patient records with Google for their project codenamed “Nightingale.” (very Batman, if you ask me!) Most of the discussion so far, and the answers have not yet become pellucid, concerns whether…

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