Tag Archives: Google

Google has collected millions of health records

Google and one of the nation’s largest health systems are reportedly working together to collect health information from millions of Americans without their knowledge. Google and St. Louis-based Ascension began collecting patient lab results, diagnoses, and hospitalization records last year as part of an initiative they coined “Project Nightingale,” the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.… Read More »

Google Health is finally opening up about its plans, and they’re all about search

Google hired David Feinberg from Geisinger Health, a system of hospitals based in Pennsylvania, toward the end of 2018 and put him in charge of a newly created division called Google Health. But the company has remained quiet about the division’s scope and goals. Now he’s beginning to talk publicly about his plans, and appeared… Read More »

Google To Buy Fitbit For $2.1 Billion, What About Privacy Concerns?

Fitbit Co-founder/President & CEO James Park speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco … [+] 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October 04, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch) Getty Images for TechCrunch Fitbit is getting Googled, in more ways than one. That’s because there was a Fitbit of… Read More »

Weekly health quiz — Google, autism and eggs

Want Access to My All-Time Top 30 Health Tips? It’s Free! You’ll also receive my FREE Natural Health newsletter | Privacy Policy ADVERTISEMENT July 01, 2019 1 Google’s June 2019 broad core algorithm update and its updated quality rater guidelines has resulted in: Greater visibility for high-quality, objective health news and information sites Higher Google-directed… Read More »