Eric Schmidt of Google on Healthcare Pandemic Flu Trends
Eric Schmidt of Google talks about cloud computing and how Google can help in healthcare through search analysis trending.
In Eric’s examples in this video he talks about rises in anonymous query trends alerting google about potential Pandemic, e.g.: Flu Trend queries. In these situations Google alerts the healthcare professionals when these query rises happen. This alert system within Google saves 10 to 30 thousand lives a year.
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