Completely disagree.

There is huge scope in healthcare for automation, pre-emptive diagnosis and raising the bar for precision.

It is mostly going to be done by a company with good AI chops, I would put my money on Google, from what I have heard about their efforts.

Google often has terrible execution when it lies outside their direct core businesses. You are correct they have amazing engineering talent, but that is not the problem here.

The issue here is not "engineering talent" The current hodge podge of Health care apps, web sites and and insurance systems all work correctly.

The business logic is broken.

Which is entirely orthogonal from how they might (ab)use that data. They are a commercial company. It will be commercialised. No. Not ok by me.

Healthcare in US is run by commercial companies only. The diagnosis machines are made my commerical companies only.

I am not sure what you mean by commercialised.

Was speaking as a brit where this hasn't happened to the extent in the US.

What it means is I was one step behind :)

NHS is struggling with wait times and staff shortages, no? I have heard a lot of them is in radiology departments. These diagnostic improvements will help there as well, and for a state funded healthcare like NHS, more automation is good.

As much as I don't like for profit companies monetising this, I am not sure if I know of a better path to innovation.

I've been thinking how to enter the medical space with software.

My cousin has EDS, diagnosing the illness is pretty trivial. It took her 15+ years and when she was diagnosed she was already in severe decline. She could have been diagnosed a decade ago but some doctors just have no interest in googling symptoms and listening to patients.

I am so sorry to hear about her but this is the exact reason why I am hopeful with companies like Google entering this space and making diagnosis better.

We have so many smart devices that can record so much data, and it doesn't even have to be auto recording. If you had a headache, if you can mark that and over time based on a pattern it can recommend you to see a specialist or get some tests done.

Google may make shitty business decisions for their customers, but their technical innovations is nothing to laugh at. I mean AlphaFold alone killed off entire careers in the protein folding space just because of how good it was at predicting those structures.

I know right? I wish they would just focus on making money instead of making products people might use and gain benefit from.

"dumb advertising company" is trivialising the amazing tech and products Google has. Google has very justified bad reputation around product shutdowns and privacy, but I don't think being dumb is one of them.

I was not calling Google or its engineers dumb, that was not my intent. I am saying their success is attributed to dumb things, aka advertising. Google has a way of sucking in really smart people to work on potentially great things that end up solely existing to feed the dumb advertising machine and heavily exploiting their users in the process. It's really quite evil.

I wish it would just go out of business entirely, but I'm afraid Google doesn't care what either of us wishes.