Ascension, one of the country's largest nonprofit and Catholic health systems, agreed with the scheme named Project Nightingale and hopes to develop artificial intelligence tools for doctors. The tech giant reportedly has access to health records, lab results, diagnoses, records of hospitalization, dates of birth, names and addresses of patients, reports the Wall Street Journal. A federal inquiry has been opened against Google's Project Nightingale program, the report added. "To be clear... patient data cannot and will not be combined with any Google consumer data," the firm added. However, Project Nightingale has already attracted criticism from those who argue that it takes away patients' control of their own data.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 13, 2019 04:48 UTC