Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks”
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Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks”
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Re: Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks”
#2The site was extremely slow to load for me; here's the Google cache.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
Re: Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks”
#3The page isn't loading, but I assume it's referencing their response to the question about healthcare asked in this session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdnp_7atZ0M
Re: Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks”
#4Basically, he's saying that it's too heavily regulated for them to want to dip their toe in. Seems reasonable, it's the same reason I never bothered with the healthcare ideas I've been interested in. Too many landmines, and not enough latitude to try creative things.
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#5Misleading title. It should be "Google Co-Founders on being a health company"
Re: Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks”
#6Healthcare is heavily regulated, and I understand why some companies would be reluctant to branch out into it.
But that doesn't mean the privacy and legal concerns surrounding HIPAA regulations are unwarranted. Yea, it would be nice if we lived in an ethical utopia where we wouldn't have to feel worried about people looking through our health records. But we don't. I would not feel comfortable with my health records being easily accessible, even if that would lead to better data-mining opportunities.
Re: Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks”
#7Basically, he's saying that it's too heavily regulated for them to want to dip their toe in. Seems reasonable, it's the same reason I never bothered with the healthcare ideas I've been interested in. Too many landmines, and not enough latitude to try creative things.
The whole mining data on health has so many wonderful possibilities, but giving so much of my privacy it's a big no for me.
Re: Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks”
#8When you fuck up in health, people can die. Regulation exists for a reason.
Re: Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks”
#9When you fuck up in health, people can die. Regulation exists for a reason.
The regulations more exist to keep you from getting people discriminated against.
I mean, yes, we don't want folks to die. Nor do we want folks making bad decisions based on information they don't understand. However, to say that it is just "people could die" ignores the fact that they have technology entering in vehicles and whatnot.
Re: Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks”
#10didn't G+ out some transgender people?
http://www.zdnet.com/google-outed-me-7000025416/
now imagine the same with Google having access to all medical records.
regulation around this exists for a very, very good reason.