What is really unfortunate and not communicated in this article is just how much Google's various star crossed forays into healthcare took oxygen from other fruitful and deserving efforts. It's an indictment of healthcare institutions as well for falling for it every time one of the tech megaliths promises the moon.

At ClearHealth we lost many, many potential projects, partners and dollars over the years to "we are going to see what google is doing", "we are in talks with google", etc.

The damage is very large but difficult to calculate.