Healthcare’s blind spot: What happens after our data is shared?

The piece highlights a lawsuit by Epic and several health systems alleging Health Gorilla enabled unauthorized access and monetization of sensitive patient records via the Carequality network, using it to illustrate systemic weaknesses in healthcare data governance. It argues that current permissioning and self-policing are inadequate for unstructured clinical text and calls for privacy-by-design and automated, upstream technical controls that travel with the data, citing tools like Tonic Textual as examples.