“Three years ago, artificial intelligence company DeepMind embarked on a landmark effort to transform health care in the U.K. Now plans by owner Alphabet Inc. to wrap the partnership into its Google search engine business are tripping alarm bells about privacy.”
“Data protection advocates cried foul when the company reversed course on an earlier pledge to keep DeepMind Health, which taps millions of British medical records to monitor and diagnose disease, separate from Google. This month Alphabet said it plans to consolidate the businesses…”
“Alphabet wants to match rivals’ major investments in health, according to Jeff Becker, a senior analyst at Forrester Research. While Apple Inc. has targeted consumers and insurance companies, and Amazon.com Inc. is courting companies that provide employees’ medical insurance, Google seems to be gearing initiatives toward hospitals and doctors, he said…” Read the full article here.
Source: Google Taking Over Health Records Raises Patient Privacy Fears – By Jeremy Kahn and John Lauerman, November 21, 2018. Bloomberg.
