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Googler, opinions are my own. WSJ has had some good converge about parallel medical record stories that are going on right now too, as has CNBC: https://www.c

by kyrra 7y ago

Googler, opinions are my own. WSJ has had some good converge about parallel medical record stories that are going on right now too, as has CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/17/epic-systems-warns-customers-it-will-stop-supporting-google-cloud.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/17/epic-systems-warns-customers... https://www.wsj.com/articles/paging-dr-google-how-the-tech-giant-is-laying-claim-to-health-data-11578719700 https://www.wsj.com/articles/paging-dr-google-how-the-tech-g... WSJ podcast about it: https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/why-google-is-pushing-into-health-data/19d0dbe3-fe29-4c6d-a547-926df9a3ec89 https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/why-google-is-pushi... To quote the end of the WSJ article: > Existing players in the health-care data market also fear that the tech giant will gain too much power in their industry. Some hospital and technology executives say they declined deals with Google lest it become a future competitor. > “We could never pin down Google on what their true business model was,” says a Cerner executive involved in the discussions.

platform 7y ago
Oracle has done the same in the last 25 years. Company I worked for used Oracle database for an enterprise system. Oracle over the years, acquired some of our competitors. Then every time customers would need to renew database licenses with Oracle, Oracle's sales reps would try to sell them the competing enterprise systems that they had acquired.
trhway 7y ago
>> “We could never pin down Google on what their true business model was,” says a Cerner executive involved in the discussions. I think they really do understand what the Google true business model is, and this is exactly why they say that and avoid giving Google the access to the data.
atoav 7y ago
The cool thing about medical data is, that you only have to lose them once in order to be out there

by kyrra 7y ago

platform 7y ago

Oracle has done the same in the last 25 years. Company I worked for used Oracle database for an enterprise system. Oracle over the years, acquired some of our competitors. Then every time customers would need to renew database licenses with Oracle, Oracle's sales reps would try to sell them the competing enterprise systems that they had acquired.

trhway 7y ago

>> “We could never pin down Google on what their true business model was,” says a Cerner executive involved in the discussions. I think they really do understand what the Google true business model is, and this is exactly why they say that and avoid giving Google the access to the data.

atoav 7y ago

The cool thing about medical data is, that you only have to lose them once in order to be out there