Google, Data Privacy, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Healthcare Data Case Against Google May Proceed - Rules U.S. District Court

Baker Botts L.L.P. on 6/30/2025

On June 6, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a number of claims being brought against Google related to its alleged improper collection of health-related data though...more

HHS and FTC Send Joint Letter to 130 Hospital Systems, Telehealth Providers Re: Tracking Technologies

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 7/21/2023

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Trade Commission have sent a joint letter to approximately 130 hospital systems and telehealth providers to emphasize the risks and concerns about the use of...more

Google Health's Partnerships Raise Privacy Concerns

Troutman Pepper Locke on 1/29/2020

Google Health’s Partnerships Raise Privacy Concerns - Recently, Google has been at the center of privacy concerns due to its health- sharing collaborations with the University of Chicago Medical Center (the Medical Center)...more

Healthcare in the AI Crosshairs

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 12/13/2019

News broke last month that Google partnered with the second-largest health system in the U.S., Ascension Healthcare, to collect and analyze the health information of millions of patients in a program code-named "Project...more

Project Nightingale: The Google-Ascension partnership

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 12/5/2019

ethikos 33, no. 12 (December 2019) - On November 11, the Wall Street Journal reported that Alphabet Inc’s Google had formed a partnership with Ascension, a Catholic chain of 2,600 hospitals, doctors’ offices, and other...more

Privacy, Security, Risk: What You Missed At IAPP Conference

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 10/15/2015

Earlier this month, privacy and security professionals from around the globe gathered for “Privacy. Security. Risk. 2015”—the second joint conference between the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the...more