Google Exec Says Data, AI Advance Health Care PYMNTS.com

Toby Cosgrove, an executive advisor to the Google Cloud health care team, believes data and artificial intelligence (AI) have the power to advance the health care system. "As you look at health care, we have got a problem and a curse in the fact that we have an explosion in the amount of knowledge there is in health care. For example, there are 5,800 medical journals that are turning out 800,000 articles a year," Cosgrove said in an interview with CNBC. "There's an enormous amount of data and it's a problem for us to keep track of and that's why I think the cloud is going to come in," he explained. "As the data goes to the cloud all the major cloud providers have come to an agreement that they will share unidentified information."