Not everyone agrees that there’s too much data-mining of health information. Alex Herm reports:
Fear of data-mining of healthcare could be costing as many as 100,000 lives a year, according to Google’s Larry Page.
Speaking out in response to fears over his company’s vast haul of personal information, Page made the case that not only is Google not going too far with collecting and analysing such information – it’s not going far enough.
“For me, I’m so excited about the possibilities to improve things for people, my worry would be the opposite,” he told the New York Times’s Farhad Manjoo. “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.”
Read more on The Guardian.