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Larry Page: Healthcare Data Mining Could Save 100,000 Lives a Year
An anonymous reader writes Google often gets criticism for its seemingly boundless desire for data collection and analysis, but the company says it has higher ambitions than just figuring out how best to serve advertising. Speaking to the NY Times, Larry Page said, "We get so worried about these things that we don't get the benefits Right now we don't data-mine healthcare data. If we did we'd probably save 100,000 lives next year." By "these things," he means privacy concerns and fear that the data might be misused. But he also pointed to Street View as a case where privacy concerns mostly melted away after people used it and found it helpful. "In the early days of Street View, this was a huge issue, but it's not really a huge issue now. People understand it now and it's very useful. And it doesn't really change your privacy that much. A lot of these things are like that."
the Republicans will never let this happen. With their current rule of this country, expect to see nothing like that helps the people to be allowed. That is the way of their kind. It's sad to see health care here destroyed by them. We could have, as an example from just yesterday, had a country where huge soft drinks aren't shoved down our throats, but instead the Republicans got the common sense measures reversed in order to hurt the health of this country. Again, that is the way of their kind.