The Wall Street Journals Rob Copeland reports that the data amassed in the program includes lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, complete with patient names and dates of birth.
The company calls itself a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. According to the WSJ, Google is using data from the system to design software that tailors individual patient care using advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning.
The idea was that by using the system, Ascension health providers could use a tool called Patient Search and pull up individual patient pages. According to Forbes, which says it viewed a presentation on the topic, The page includes complete patient information as well as notes about patient medical issues, test results and medications, including information from scanned documents.
Google has been focused on health care for a while now, and their focus on the industry has only increased in recent years.
The tech company has also been accused of inappropriate access to hundreds of thousands of health care records through the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Update November 11th, 4:50PM ET: This post has been updated with additional details on Project Nightingale from Forbes article.
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