The race for your health care data is on and Google has big ambitions

Google’s New Health-Search Engine

Making the $3T health data searchable, and maybe, monetizable.

About 7 percent of Google’s daily searches are health-related, according to Google Health Vice President David Feinberg, MD, as reported by The Telegraph. With over 70,000 search queries every minute, this translates into over a 1B every day. But Google has a bigger ambition — to organize ALL your health-related information.

Healthcare in the US is an industry waiting to be digitally disrupted. A total of $3T is spent on Healthcare annually, and most would agree that it’s far from efficient and effective. Data silos continue to be a significant challenge in the healthcare industry and from giants to start-ups, all are in a race to digitize and structure this data including, the electronic record standard, imaging, and DNA sequencing.

Google Cloud President Tariq Shaukat said the company’s goal for health care is centered on “ultimately improving outcomes, reducing costs, and saving lives.”