Inside STAT: Memorial Sloan Kettering deals create a web of conflicts, ethics experts say

In 2016, Memorial Sloan Kettering signed a deal with one of New Jersey's biggest hospital systems, giving the cancer center access to a bigger pool of patients. Within a year, it launched another collaboration, this one with a data analytics startup founded by an executive of the New Jersey hospital system who helped strike the blockbuster 2016 deal. The company promises its software can take patient data and spit out insights about how best to treat certain cancers. Ethics experts tell STAT that by forging those partnerships, MSK has created a web of financial conflicts that raise doubts about whether the hospital can always put its patients’ interests first. STAT's Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitz have the story here.