Project Nightingale

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