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Google Strikes Deal With Hospital Chain to Develop Healthcare Algorithms
« on: May 26, 2021, 02:16:37 PM »
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    Google Strikes Deal With Hospital Chain to Develop Healthcare Algorithms
    May 25, 2021
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    SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
    AUTHOR: Melanie Evans
     
     
    Google and national hospital chain HCA Healthcare Inc. HCA 1.98% have struck a deal to develop healthcare algorithms using patient records, the latest foray by a tech giant into the $3 trillion healthcare sector.

    Nashville, Tenn.,-based HCA, which operates across about 2,000 locations in 21 states, would consolidate and store with Google data from digital health records and internet-connected medical devices under the multiyear agreement. Google and HCA engineers will work to develop algorithms to help improve operating efficiency, monitor patients and guide doctors’ decisions, according to the companies.

    “Data are spun off of every patient in real time,” said Dr. Jonathan Perlin, HCA’s chief medical officer. “Part of what we’re building is a central nervous system to help interpret the various signals.”

    The deal expands Google’s reach in healthcare, where the recent shift to digital records has created an explosion of data and a new market for technology giants and startups. Data crunching offers the opportunity to develop new treatments and improve patient safety, but algorithm-development deals between hospitals and tech companies have also raised privacy alarms.

    Google has previously reached deals with other prominent U.S. hospital systems, including St. Louis-based Ascension, that granted access to personal patient information, drawing public scrutiny. Other tech giants have struck similar deals.

    Google will access data when needed with consent from HCA, but the tech giant can develop analytic tools without patient records and allow HCA to test the models independently, said Chris Sakalosky, managing director of healthcare and life sciences at Google Cloud. “We want to push the boundaries of what the clinician can do in real time with data,” he said. Dr. Perlin said HCA patient records would be stripped of identifying information before being shared with Google data scientists and that the hospital system would control access to the data. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed by the companies.

    Personal patient information is protected under the federal health-privacy law, known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The law allows hospitals and some other healthcare companies, such as health insurers, to share information with contractors, which must also abide by the law’s privacy protections.
    Some consider the federal law outdated, saying the law’s protections haven’t kept pace with the technology sector’s growing demand for patient data, said Michelle Mello, a Stanford University professor of law and medicine who focuses on health-data privacy.

    Companies may also use the data under the law in ways to develop products that boost corporate profit, with no visibility or control for patients over how their data is used. “Some people just don’t want their data used in particular ways by particular parties,” said Dr. Mello, who has served as an adviser to Alphabet’s Verily Life Sciences.

    Health and technology giants have pushed into healthcare data aggregation and algorithm development with mixed results. International Business Machines Corp. has explored a sale of its IBM Watson Health business, as the company’s healthcare artificial-intelligence unit struggled, The Wall Street Journal reported in February.
    Hospitals are uniquely positioned as brokers for data created by patients seeking care and interacting with doctors, laboratories, pharmacies and medical devices. They have increasingly sought to capitalize on that data in deals to aggregate patient records or develop products with pharmaceutical and technology companies. “They aren’t sleeping on this opportunity either,” said Jeffrey Becker, principal analyst for healthcare at CB Insights.


    Fourteen hospital systems in February announced a newly formed company, Truveta Inc., to sell access to their anonymized records for patients across 40 states. Other hospitals have invested in health-record analytic companies, such as Health Catalyst Inc., which went public in 2019.
    The multiyear HCA-Google agreement will seek to develop algorithms that could help monitor patients and guide treatment, said Dr. Perlin. During the pandemic, HCA used its own technology to monitor critically ill Covid-19 patients and notify doctors of potentially better treatment options. The company found that survival rates increased by comparing the outcomes for patients before and after rolling out the algorithm.
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    Re: Google Strikes Deal With Hospital Chain to Develop Healthcare Algorithms
    « Reply #1 on: May 26, 2021, 04:02:13 PM »
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    • Hive mind IOB (internet of bodies).

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    When the Internet of Things (IoT) connects with your body, the result is the Internet of Bodies (IoB). The Internet of Bodies (IoB) is an extension of the IoT and basically connects the human body to a network through devices that are ingested, implanted, or connected to the body in some way. Once connected, data can be exchanged, and the body and device can be remotely monitored and controlled...(see link for full article)
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    Re: Google Strikes Deal With Hospital Chain to Develop Healthcare Algorithms
    « Reply #2 on: May 26, 2021, 06:45:04 PM »
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    • Quote from: Miser Peccator on May 26, 2021, 04:02:13 PM
    Hive mind IOB (internet of bodies).

    Article From Center For Digital Health:
    https://bit.ly/2QTJp5p

    What Is The Internet Of Bodies? And How Is It Changing Our World?
    When the Internet of Things (IoT) connects with your body, the result is the Internet of Bodies (IoB). The Internet of Bodies (IoB) is an extension of the IoT and basically connects the human body to a network through devices that are ingested, implanted, or connected to the body in some way. Once connected, data can be exchanged, and the body and device can be remotely monitored and controlled...(see link for full article)
    This was an interesting article, thanks for sharing . The obvious concern with today's Google deal, IMO, is not only the privacy issue, but who is going to take care of the patient: the doctor or whoever is behind the algorithm. Will the algorithm decide a course of treatment based on whether the patient has outlived his/her usefulness as defined by some insurance company bureaucrat? Will a doctor even be utilized? The potential for malevolence is huge.
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    Re: Google Strikes Deal With Hospital Chain to Develop Healthcare Algorithms
    « Reply #3 on: May 26, 2021, 07:15:49 PM »
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    • Quote from: BOTHY on May 26, 2021, 06:45:04 PM
    This was an interesting article, thanks for sharing . The obvious concern with today's Google deal, IMO, is not only the privacy issue, but who is going to take care of the patient: the doctor or whoever is behind the algorithm. Will the algorithm decide a course of treatment based on whether the patient has outlived his/her usefulness as defined by some insurance company bureaucrat? Will a doctor even be utilized? The potential for malevolence is huge.
    The TED talks and DAVOS and Singularity U etc have been saying for the past decade that the future of medicine will be controlled by AI.  
    So just like the AI controlled slaughterbots, there will be no humans at the helm.
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    Re: Google Strikes Deal With Hospital Chain to Develop Healthcare Algorithms
    « Reply #4 on: May 26, 2021, 08:19:50 PM »
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    • Quote from: Miser Peccator on May 26, 2021, 07:15:49 PM
    The TED talks and DAVOS and Singularity U etc have been saying for the past decade that the future of medicine will be controlled by AI.  
    So just like the AI controlled slaughterbots, there will be no humans at the helm.
    On that note, I think I'll open a beer and watch a Maymo and Penny video:)
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    Re: Google Strikes Deal With Hospital Chain to Develop Healthcare Algorithms
    « Reply #5 on: May 27, 2021, 07:05:35 AM »
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    • Hospitals have become death camps. 
    More death and destruction to the environment with future technology.  The billionaires who control the world want to kill us off and replace workers with robotics. 
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    Re: Google Strikes Deal With Hospital Chain to Develop Healthcare Algorithms
    « Reply #6 on: May 27, 2021, 07:32:28 AM »
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    • Quote from: Viva Cristo Rey on May 27, 2021, 07:05:35 AM
    Hospitals have become death camps.
    More death and destruction to the environment with future technology.  The billionaires who control the world want to kill us off and replace workers with robotics.
    Worse...they want to make us robotics.
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