Friday, November 15, 2019
Self-made Crisis
Google has a crisis on its hands that it alone has created. It has gone into partnership with Ascension healthcare to codify and store the large medical chain's records and the information of millions of patients. It has apparently failed to tell its own people or the public what it plans to do with all this private information. Now, there is a whistleblower who raises serious issues that the company has yet to explain. It didn't need to be this way. Google could have prepared the ground for the partnership with abundant internal and external communication. Why it chose not to do so is unknown at this time. Perhaps it feared it would be barred from operating if the word got out too early. Now the company is being forced to defend itself and is the target of a HIPAA investigation. Maybe next time it will know better.
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