[JohnFen]

> So how does an organization decide who is the "right" entity to deal with?

Practically speaking, that's up to the company -- but the company needs to make sure that their clients are informed and are able to withdraw their data if they're concerned.

The larger part of what's wrong with this particular deal is that it was done in secret. Patients and doctors were not informed of this until after data has begun to be transferred. They should have been, and patients should have been given the option to remove their data from the dataset and find another health care provider if they wish.

> Personally, it's more important to me to be able to actually know how much a procedure is going to cost rather than who owns the AI stack behind their clinical decision support system.

I agree that knowing costs is very important, but we're miles away from that being a thing that is possible. In the meantime, I think it's important not to backslide in other areas such as this one.

I'd also say that my concern isn't really about who owns the stack, or the cloud. That sort of battle was lost years ago. My concern is the ability of Google to access that information.