Technology

I started following Big Tech's push into healthcare the way I follow any major beat: by asking simple, practical questions—what changes will people actually notice in their care, who benefits, and who loses control over sensitive information? Over the past few years I’ve watched companies like Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft expand offerings from wellness apps and wearables to cloud-hosted electronic health records, AI diagnostics and...

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I woke up to the alert like many of you probably would: a headline flashing across my phone that a major hospital had suffered a sudden data breach. My first thought was for the patients — the people whose most intimate details, test results and sometimes stigmatizing diagnoses are stored in that system. My second thought was practical: if this can happen to a large institution with resources and IT teams, what does it mean for how I share my...

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