Internal documents show privacy lapses at a data powerhouse that holds health records and consumer information on millions of Americans

July 28, 2022

Casey Shenery for STAT

To the outside world and its countless health care customers, the data powerhouse IQVIA has portrayed itself as a bastion of privacy, fully committed to safeguarding the medical secrets it has spent decades collecting on tens of millions of Americans.

But internal documents reveal a different reality.

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Casey Ross

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Casey Ross covers the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and its underlying questions of safety, fairness, and privacy.

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