Big Data, Big Tech, and Protecting Patient Privacy

This Viewpoint uses Dinerstein v Google, a class action complaint in Illinois alleging that an academic medical center violated patient privacy by giving timestamped electronic health record (EHR) data to Google for development of their novel EHR system, to review the ways privacy laws like HIPAA are based on outdated technologies and data transfer standards and to call for a rethinking of data sharing governance appropriate to contemporary infrastructure and expectations of interoperability.