Health tech is so old-fashioned that Google had to adapt its cloud service to work with fax machines

CNBC February 14, 2019
Christina Farr

• Google Cloud is pitching the health sector, alongside rivals like Microsoft and Amazon.
• One way it can stand out is to provide real value to the medical system.
• And that’s by understanding that medicine still relies on outdated technologies, like the fax machine.

Last year at the HIMSS health care conference, former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt noted that health care is still in the “stone age,” and is reliant on fax machines and pagers.

This week, at the same conference in Orlando, Google seems to have acknowledged that the medical world’s stone age technology is here to stay for the foreseeable future. At the company’s booth, attendees spotted a demo for a new health service that...

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