"Amazon, Google, IBM & Microsoft vying for hospitals’ business in cloud storage in part by offering algorithms & tech features...separate deals for access to medical-record data for research, development and product pilots.” @wsj #bigdata #DigitalHealth https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-give-tech-giants-access-to-detailed-medical-records-11579516200?mod=hp_lista_pos1 https://t.co/mcbv7RLE9k
When you share prescriptions w/ Amazon (ahem, #pillpack) you open your medical records to accidental breaches, transfers of ownership (and subsequent loss of any perceived contractual #privacy), and #bigdata utility re every purchase, query, search, etc. via the platform. https://twitter.com/chrissyfarr/status/1199373838527520768
Amazon takes another step into #healthcare: selling software to mine patient medical records for information that can improve care and cut costs https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-starts-selling-software-to-mine-patient-health-records-1543352136 via @WSJ #BigData #xMed #DeepLearning #DigitalHealth