In an effort to tighten data storage practices and data breaches, a bipartisan legislation introduced by Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo, Designing Accounting Safeguards to Help Broaden Oversight And Regulations on Data (DASHBOARD) Act, will require data harvesting companies such as social media platforms to tell consumers and financial regulators exactly what data they are collecting from consumers, and how it is being leveraged by the platform for profit.
The University of Chicago Medical Center in 2017 announced that it was creating a partnership with Google to use data from patients’ electronic medical records to help make better predictions and advance artificial intelligence in medicine.
Seventy percent of healthcare professionals are "very" or "extremely" confident in their knowledge of where their firm's data resides, according to the Integris survey of execs and IT decision makers US healthcare organizations.