Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
The pile on continues...(1) This is probably a project by a small "research" group at Facebook. The goal of that group is probably to publish papers in a Psych journal or something like that about how they were able to correlate anonymized medical data with Facebook feed updates. Tech companies have these research groups for prestige, they are not central to the company mission.(2) According to the article, the project was never actually started. So it sounds like a bit of a non-story.