[givinguflac]

You're blind if you think this is for "healthcare innovation". It's for bolstering what they know about users for advertising, and to combine with their recent Fitbit purchase. How could you possibly still view Google as an innocent company with everyone's best interests at heart?

[stevenhuang]

I would examine your biases to see if they are not clouding your judgment and ability to see the other side.

Without restraint, these efforts will undeniably bolster their ability to conduct targeted advertisements, which is bad. Hopefully regulation and consumer backlash will take care of that.

But you cannot deny the amount of good we stand to gain from an advanced electronic health system. The insights that can be generated from cross correlation of all patient data, the amount of preventative measures that can be taken from detecting problems before they become bigger problems... The benefits far outweigh the negatives. It's unthinkable to have all this data and NOT attempt to find insights in them.

[justinclift]

> But you cannot deny the amount of good we stand to gain from an advanced electronic health system.

Not one that has anything to do with Google though.

[givinguflac]

There is no circumstance where you can reasonably state the positives outweigh the negatives. You are conflating a vague improved digital health system, with google blatantly gaining access to millions of people’s health data without consent. They have absolutely nothing to do with each other. I’m all for people opting in, but to have no say over random google employees accessing my health data? There’s no way that’s a positive. Perhaps check your own biases? Thanks

[rickncliff]

They employ a lot of talented people and they are among the few organizations that have the resources and will to actually solve these intricate problems, so more power to them as far as I'm concerned.

[ilikehurdles]

Tautologically, you've described every organization in the health tech space. Having a surveillance company secretly start transacting patient health information for their own profit isn't a solution in search of any problem I want solved.

[givinguflac]

What problem? Please tell me, what is this "solving" besides providing user data without consent to google?