Google is using the information in gathers through its partnership with Ascension to develop artificial intelligence software that it hopes to sell to to health care providers. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Google is aggressively collecting and analyzing health care data on millions of patients in 21 states across the U.S.
The effort represents what the Wall Street Journal terms the "biggest effort yet by a Silicon Valley giant to gain a toehold in the health-care industry through the handling of patients' medical data."
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