I believe you.
I do not, however, believe that Google has any incentive to keep it that way, once there's buy-in. What Google's doing here is great, but on the other hand it's Google that's doing it.
I do not, however, believe that Google has any incentive to keep it that way, once there's buy-in. What Google's doing here is great, but on the other hand it's Google that's doing it.
What incentive do doctors and patients have to keep vending the data to Google at that point? And what incentive would other Cloud customers have to trust their data wouldn't get aggregated?
The GCP business model is different from Google's other business models and they know it.
Inertia, if nothing else. Moving platforms, especially in a highly-regulated industry, is no small thing.