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    Project Nightingale is a partnership between Google and Ascension, one of the largest healthcare systems in the US, to use patient data from Ascension to improve healthcare through data analytics. Ascension shared data from over 50 million patients without their consent. While the goal was to improve care, it raises privacy concerns as patients were unaware their data was shared. This highlights the need to consider ethical issues around privacy and consent when innovating technologies that use personal health information.

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    Project Nightingale is a partnership between Google and Ascension, one of the largest healthcare systems in the US, to use patient data from Ascension to improve healthcare through data analytics. Ascension shared data from over 50 million patients without their consent. While the goal was to improve care, it raises privacy concerns as patients were unaware their data was shared. This highlights the need to consider ethical issues around privacy and consent when innovating technologies that use personal health information.

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    The Project Nightingale

    Adam, Baby Rosmia A.


    Camad, Almira U.
    Siva, Marlon W.
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    Google Cloud Platfrorm (GCP) offers


    Ascension is one of the largest
    a suite of computing services to do
    private healthcare systems in the 
    everything from GCP cost to data
    United States, ranking second in
    management to delivering web and
    the United States by number
    video over the web to AI and
    of hospitals as of 2019 (Wikipedia,
    machine learning tools (Knox, 2019)
    2023)

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    696169/155294/155294_4300254_696169_image.jpg
    What is Project Nightingale?
    • A partnership between Google and Ascension
    (a healthcare company)
    • Ascension shares the data of their patients to
    Google to use for advanced data analytics
    • Data are used to improve health care industry
    by analyzing data to create cure for diseases
    • Patients are unaware if their data being used,
    invading their privacy
    The Purpose of Project Nightingale
    The partnership of Ascension with Google is
    to improve its patient care system. The
    healthcare organization wanted to centralize
    its electronic record by moving its data to the
    cloud. They hoped that faster and easier access
    to patient information would help health care
    providers and benefit patients. The data is
    used to provide additional ways to discover
    different tests that could help diagnose
    patients (Brush, 2020).
    What factor or events led to this delimma?
    • In 2019, the Ascension and Google started a
    partnership to develop a software database to store
    medical records
    • Records of over 50 million patients have been
    released to Google through Project Nightingale and
    at least 150 Google employees have gained access to
    these medical records.
    • In November 2019, a Wall Street Journal article
    about Project Nightingale was published, gaining
    public attention. Concerns have been raised about
    the project and whether it threatens the data security
    of Protected Health Information (PHI)
    What are the implications of this dilemma for
    society?

    • Invasion of privacy is unethical


    • The patients do not have the freedom to refuse
    to share their information, which violates Data
    Privacy Act
    • Violates the Health Insurance Portability and
    Accountability Act (HIPAA)
    • Patients were unaware of their data being shared
    Why is it important to question the moral and
    ethical issues surrounding innovation in S & T?

    • The patients involved has no knowledge that their


    data have been shared. The institution should ask
    for permission first
    • Sharing names, address, birthdate, diagnoses and
    lab results, without the permission of the person
    involved is invasion of privacy. They have the right
    to know under the Data Privacy Act
    • The Project does not have an “out” option and so
    the patients cannot refuse to share their
    information. This violates the Data Privacy Act
    In the face of this dilemma, why is it still important to study STS?

    The Project Nightingale indeed has its ethical


    issues; however, it cannot be denied that the
    project has its potential. If successfully
    implemented, the medical field indeed will
    improve. Health experts will find it easier to create
    medicines by analyzing the data shared.
    Despite the issues, the development of this S&T is a
    big help and studying it means finding a way of
    improvement. It is rather preferable if the issue will
    be resolved
    References:
    • Brush, K. (2020, February 4). Project Nightingale. Health
    IT. https://www.techtarget.com/searchhealthit/definition/Project-
    Nightingale
    • Knox, K. (2021, August 13). What is Google Cloud Platform (GCP)?
    A Cloud Guru. https://
    acloudguru.com/blog/engineering/what-is-google-cloud-platform-g
    cp
    • Studocu. (2021). Group 4 Project Nightingale - Science, Technology
    and Society - Mapúa - Studocu.
    https://www.studocu.com/ph/document/mapua-university/science
    -technology-and-society/group-4-project-nightingale/24624813
    • Wikipedia contributors. (2023, January 27). Ascension (healthcare
    system).
    Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_(healthcare_s
    ystem)

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