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“ Medicine needs to come out of the Dark Ages now ” says Google
lot of entrepreneurs ,” said Brin .
“ We have Calico , obviously , we did that with Art Levinson , which is pretty independent effort . Focuses on health and longevity . I ’ m really excited about that . I am really excited about the possibility of data also , to improve health . But that ’ s – I think what Sergey ’ s saying , it ’ s so heavily regulated . It ’ s a difficult area . I can give you an example . Imagine you had the ability to search people ’ s medical records in the U . S . Any medical researcher can do it . Maybe they have the names removed . Maybe when the medical researcher searches your data , you get to see which researcher searched it and why . I imagine that would save 10,000 lives in the first year . Just that . That ’ s almost impossible to do because of HIPAA . I do worry that we regulate ourselves out of some really great possibilities that are certainly on the data-mining end ,” added Page .
Brin and Page ’ s final view on healthcare is that while it is fun to work on a few “ cool ” projects , the regulatory
30 August 2014