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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Cerebral admits to sharing patient data with Meta, TikTok, and Google  The Verge Source link

Sascha Roth, a runner who helps manage a family furniture store, in Bethesda, Md., on June 3, 2022, learned she had rectal cancer in 2019. A small study on rectal cancer results in remission in every patient. (Shuran Huang/The New York Times) It was a small trial, just 18 rectal cancer patients, every one of whom took the same drug. But the results were astonishing. The cancer vanished in every single patient, undetectable by physical exam; endoscopy; positron emission tomography, or PET… Source link

Google is facing a new class-action style lawsuit in the UK in relation to a health data scandal that broke back in 2016, when it emerged that its AI division, DeepMind, had been passed data on more than a million patients as part of an app development project by the Royal Free NHS Trust in London — without the patients’ knowledge or consent. The Trust was later sanctioned by the UK’s data protection watchdog which found, in mid 2017, that it had breached uk data protection law… Source link

DETROIT — The first game Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups circled on his NBA schedule was March 21, his return to Detroit. He expected to be at the helm of a perennial playoff team led by Damian Lillard, closing in on a playoff spot or even better, jockeying for position at a higher seed. But hours before tipoff, Lillard was ruled out for the season, following abdominal surgery he underwent in January, with 12 games remaining. And Billups probably didn’t expect for Ben… Source link

mRNA-3705 is Moderna’s second rare disease program to enter clinical studies mRNA-3705 granted Orphan Drug and Rare Pediatric Disease designation by the U.S. FDA MMA associated with significant mortality and morbidity; there are no approved therapies CAMBRIDGE, Mass., August 16, 2021–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Moderna, Inc., (Nasdaq: MRNA) a clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today announced the first patient has been enrolled in the Phase… Source link

Google has made a deal for access to patient records from HCA, which which operates 181 hospitals and more than 2,000 healthcare sites in 21 states, so the tech company can develop healthcare algorithms, The Wall Street Journal reports. Google will store anonymized data from patient health records and internet-connected medical devices. That data will be used to build programs that could inform medical decisions made by doctors. The deal is described as “multiyear” by the WSJ,… Source link

Angela Lang/CNET Google has struck a deal with a national hospital chain to collect patient data… Source link

Google is reportedly making inroads toward creating a patient health record tool.   According to STAT’s Erin Brodwin, the company is recruiting patients to weigh in on how they want to access their own medical record data – potentially to help shape user-facing software.    “Google is running a user feedback program to test features that give users the ability to collect health information from their provider patient portals, organize, search and share it with the people they trust in… Source link

Refinery29 Doctors Are Going Broke During The Pandemic. Why Is No One Talking About It? Heather Bartos, MD, OB/GYN, received no salary for most of last year. She was still working all week: delivering babies in nearby hospitals, performing routine exams, logging into telehealth appointments. But because she has her own private practice, soon after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, she had to make a choice between reducing her employees’ work hours or going… Source link

More than a year after facing widespread criticism over its patient data-sharing arrangement with hospital chain Ascension, Google on Tuesday unveiled new details and a name for a core product of the partnership. The tool — a kind of Google search for electronic medical records — is called Care Studio and will now be available to roughly 250 clinicians in pilot mode. The software that lets clinicians search through reams of patient health record data without needing to know precisely… Source link