MedPage Today June 30, 2021
David Nash, MD, MBA, FACP

— The tech giant’s innovation is sure to disrupt the status quo

Google has become thoroughly embedded in our daily lives since its introduction in late September 1998. By 2006, it had so permeated our culture and language that the word “google” found its way into the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as both a noun and a verb. Today — at a whopping 88.65% share — Google continues to dominate the search engine market in the U.S.

Back in 2006, the company quietly began to explore potential business opportunities in the healthcare sector. The initial intention of Google Health was to create a repository of health records and data that would provide direct connections between doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies. The project failed...

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