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Revision as of 02:48, 27 January 2022
Background:
Project Nightingale is a Google initiative that is meant to collect and analyze millions of patients’ personal-health information in the United States (8). The operation started in 2018, and has only become bigger as time has progressed. Google works with Ascension, the second largest healthcare system in the country that has 2,600 hospitals, to obtain access to over 50 million patients’ medical records (5). Ascension’s goal of working with Google is to improve its patient care system to centralize its electronic record-keeping processes by moving its data to the cloud. Google’s end goal is to be able to create tools (using the data and information) to identify and predict health problems before a patient visits a doctor. Project Nightingale has become an increasingly debated topic as lawmakers are seeking to gain more insight into the operations and ethics of this Google Project.
The Rise and Fall of Google Health:
Google was started on the foundation of providing information to consumers in convenient ways, in which the technology firm has major interest in using this within the healthcare industry. Project Nightingale is not the first healthcare venture that has started in Google.
Google Health started its development in 2006 as an online personal health records service that allowed people to enter, update and edit their health and wellness information (1). Google continued to develop this product for two years before live testing with 1,600 patients at the Cleveland Clinic. From there, the Google Health Beta Edition was released to the public in 2008 (2). Due to its lack of adoption and scalability, the electronic personal health records (PHR) platform closed its operations in 2012.
In 2018, the company attempted to re-launch its separate health division to consolidate the company’s health projects. However, it closed down its operations in 2021. This time around, Google Health had several projects such as Google Brain (focused on deep learning), Google Fit (focused on wearable fitness devices), and Project Nightingale (3). These projects have continued to be worked on, just within the research division of Google (3).
What Project Nightingale Uses:
Before partnering with Google, Ascension used 40 data centers in more than a dozen states. Project Nightingale uses lab results, doctor diagnoses, hospitalization records, and lots of other medical information to analyze patient data; the amount of data compares to a complete health history, such as patient names and dates of birth (9). This data is used with artificial intelligence and machine learning to create strategies that will improve patients’ treatment.
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