Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/GGrGBx1kY7I   Let’s review some the healthcare-related business news for this rd week of May, 2022   Google and DeepMind, Alphabet’s AI lab subsidiary, are facing a British lawsuit for their use of confidential health information belonging to 1.6 million users of the UK’s National Health System.  The data was mined from a smartphone app called “Streams” that dealt with kidney problems.  It’s not the first time for these defendants either as they and the University of Chicago were the targets of a class-action lawsuit for patient privacy violations.   https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/emea/google-and-deepmind-face-legal-claim-unauthorised-use-nhs-medical-records     Gilead, the maker of the HIV PreP drugs Truvada and Descovy, has partially settled their suit against 58 defendants for illegally selling drugs provided as part of Gilead’s charity program providing medications for those unable to afford them.  Shady clinics and pharmacies defrauded the program of more than $68 mil