Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Google's Massive Healthy Body Study

This week Google announced that the company is undertaking an extremely ambitious project, to quote from The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/28/google-baseline-health-study

"Google wants to map how the human body behaves when it’s healthy, which could dramatically improve modern medicine." 

Here are a few other links of interest on this story:

  1. Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/articles/google-to-collect-data-to-define-healthy-human-1406246214
  2. Venture Beat News: http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/25/google-takes-on-the-human-body-to-find-out-what-a-healthy-person-looks-like/
  3. Time Magazine: http://time.com/3045429/google-baseline-study-human-health/
  4. Seeking Alpha: http://seekingalpha.com/article/2357885-update-googles-new-project-seeks-to-establish-the-picture-of-a-healthy-human?app=1&uprof=25
  5. Daily Mail UK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2705235/Google-launches-massive-study-human-body-determine-healthy-person-look-like-detect-diseases-earlier.html
  6. Computer World: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249996/Google_s_next_frontier_What_it_means_to_be_healthy
  7. Information Week: http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/analytics/google-moonshot-project-healthy-bodies/d/d-id/1297579



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