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Reports surfaced in 2019 that Google was gathering health information of millions of US citizens without informing them or their doctors to design an Artificial Intelligence-driven software
San Francisco: Google has collaborated with the US hospital chain HCA Healthcare to develop healthcare algorithms using patient records, the media reported. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Google will have access to patient records from HCA, which operates 181 hospitals and more than 2,000 healthcare sites in 21 states. HCA would consolidate and store with Google data from digital health records and internet-connected medical devices under the multi-year agreement, the report said on Wednesday.