A federal regulator has opened up an inquiry into the effort by Google and a massive hospital system to reportedly collect private health data on millions of Americans in secret

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• A federal regulator has opened up an inquiry into Google's partnership with the hospital system Ascension, The Wall Street Journal reported.
• The Journal first reported on the collaboration between the two companies and their efforts to collect personal health information on millions of Americans on Monday.
• Data such as lab results and hospital records were compiled for millions of people as part of the project, which has been termed "Project Nightingale," The Journal said.
• Neither patients nor doctors were notified, and at least 150 Google employees have access to the patients' data, the paper added. 
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A federal regulator has opened up an inquiry into Google's partnership with the hospital system Ascension in order to determine whether their mass collection of individuals' medical records follows US privacy rules, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

Roger Severino, the officer director for The Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services, told the Journal in a statement that its probe of the project "will seek to learn more information about this mass collection of individuals' medical records to ensure that HIPAA protections were fully implemented."

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