I really wish Google would just accept it's a dumb advertising company and forget about these moonshots. It's just to stroke the founders ego. They are big enough. Pay out a huge dividend or something.
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.
The business logic is broken.
I am not sure what you mean by commercialised.
What it means is I was one step behind :)
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.
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.
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.