HHS to probe whether Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ followed federal privacy law
A federal regulator is investigating whether the federal privacy law known as HIPAA was followed when Google collected millions of patient records through a partnership with nonprofit hospital chain Ascension.
The probe, first reported by the Wall Street Journal Tuesday night, was opened by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. The regulator “will seek to learn more information about this mass collection of individuals’ medical records to ensure that HIPAA protections were fully implemented,” Roger Severino, the office’s director, said in a statement to the Journal.
