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Potential class action lawsuit accuses the University of Chicago of sharing identifiable patient data with Google

A law firm alleged the University of Chicago Medical Center handed vast amounts of data over to Google without removing potentially identifying information.
Source: Virginia Mayo/AP

SAN FRANCISCO — In 2017, the University of Chicago Medical Center announced that it was teaming up with Google to use data from patients’ electronic medical records to try to make better predictions and advance artificial intelligence in medicine.

Two years later, a law firm alleged Wednesday that the hospital handed vast amounts of data over to the tech giant without removing potentially identifying information like physicians’

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