As it turned out, Ascension had signed a fairly standard cloud deal with Google for its patient data to be stored and processed. This is no different to the arrangements companies in many industries have reached with public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft. Had Ascension contracted instead with IBM — and if a few dozen IBM workers, rather than Googlers, were able to see patients’ personal data — it wouldn’t have caused a stir. Read More...
As it turned out, Ascension had signed a fairly standard cloud deal with Google for its patient data to be stored and processed. This is no different to the arrangements companies in many industries have reached with public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft. Had Ascension contracted instead with IBM — and if a few dozen IBM workers, rather than Googlers, were able to see patients’ personal data — it wouldn’t have caused a stir.
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