Welcome to the Tech Meam Right Home for Tuesday, November 12th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google has partnered with Ascension, the second largest

health care system in the United States, to analyze the personal health

info of millions of people across 21 states.

This is part of an initiative inside Google called Project Nightingale, quoting the journal.

Google began Project Nightingale in secret last year with St. Louis-based ascension, a Catholic

chain of 2,600 hospitals, doctors offices, and other facilities with the data sharing

accelerating since the summer according to internal documents.

The data involved in the initiative encompasses lab results, doctor diagnoses, and hospitalization

records among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, including patient

names and dates of birth.

Neither patients nor doctors have been notified.

At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data

on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter and the

documents.

In a news release issued after the Wall Street Journal reported on Project Nightingale on Monday,

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