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Sundar Pichai, as we know is the CEO of both the Alphabet and its Google subsidiary has something interesting to share when it comes to their next target market. He finds huge opportunities in health care that would remain for at least ten years to come. Hence he intends the company to invest in this sector using all the state of the art technology like artificial intelligence to enhance the results and went to the extent of pledging to assure for the privacy concerns. As per the US Lawmakers, who raised the question regarding the access Google, which remains the biggest cloud computing consumer in health care.

While talking about the same at the World Economic Forum held at Davos, Switzerland he claimed that while working with hospitals all the data belongs to this place only. He added that the potential is here like for instance, Cancer is often missed out and the difference we see in the form of a result is huge. He further added saying that while dealing with this ailment, ten health professionals dealing with the same could differ in approach and methods. However, taking resort on technology like artificial intelligence can make out the ways.

He added saying that the tech giant had put a huge amount of money in developing this technology (AI) to automatically study and analyze MRI scans along with the other patient data for finding out the ailment and thus make predictions that are targeted for enhancing the results along with affordable cost. With the US Lawmakers coming into the picture last November, they have asked the tech giant to offer all the info they have about the health care systems, which they have accessed from the department. It further asked the company if they are willing to use it for any project or end up using the same for digital ads. 

However, the company’s CEO has claimed that they are serious about the project as they see a huge amount of opportunities in it. This time the company intends to have a robust kind of privacy protecting regulations in place, which can offer a framework for the company to operate. Google was seen clinching the deal in November in order to get Fitbit for a whopping cost of 2.1 billion USD targeting to enter the wearables segment along with investing huge in the domain of digital health. Talking about this acquisition, it is expected to be scrutinized closely by the company regulators just before it is allowed to come close.