And secondly how different is it when those Health Records are going to google it makes a big difference now we have Electronic Medical records everyone is digitized before when you have that paper record no no you have tremendous privacy the government has forced physicians to be digitized so its easy to access that record data birth Social Security numbers diagnosis all this is very important and again id really this is news to me now theyre going to say the happy face of google we want to make your life easier doctor better diagnoses smarter diagnoses better lab reports for that i applaud them but this data has tremendous value multimillion dollars whos going to get the benefit of that does the Health Care System get that money that theyre being for or whatever so thats very important other thing that i find interesting why do you need to know patient names i wasnt a blanked out or social how is that relevant maybe your ag or sir where you live ok that could be helpful hypertension
Major news on the health care front google has reportedly partnered up with one of the Largest Health care providers in the nation to Access Health information belonging to possibly as many as 15000000 americans across 21 states the wall street journal reports that google has one access to Health Related information through its partnership with ascension which that is the largest 2nd largest me 2nd Largest Health care system in the u. S. Through a collaboration code named project nightingale so what kind of information will google have access to how about lab results doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records just to name a few insured google now has access to a complete Health History including patient names and dates of birth from the journal quote google began project nightingale in secret last year with the st louis based ascension a catholic chain of 2600 hospitals doctors offices and other facilities with data sharing accelerating since summer but heres the kicker with all of t
Sharing accelerating since summer but heres the kicker with all of this happening other patients or doctors were notified so of course the 1st question thats going to be raised does this agreement fit within hipaa laws which are designed to safeguard to protect medical information ascension says that it does and that no hipaa laws are being broken. But we also now know this that at least 150. 00 google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients again google insists that they are in compliance with federal law so the next question does this agreement put your private information at risk by allowing a monster tech company like google to have access to this information and how will google use it to answer that question were joined by dr John Dombrowski a Pain Management physician with the Washington Pain Center thanks for being with us so when the wall street journal broke the story monday google admitted that ok you know its not a big deal you know
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