Don’t underestimate them.
Just have a look at Alphabet. Calico and Verily might look like small things in the whole of the thing, but they are very much long-term strategy firms.
Also, one seriously major problem in using medical data is how to make sense of it. There is so much of it, and biological systems are quite variable and flexible.
But that’s literally the information in IT. These companies deal with amounts of data already and have people who do nothing else but think about ways how to make sense of information.
That’s the long term plan. If they can tackle this while doing other stuff, they will make money.
And you gave the reason for their interest yourself:
It truly is, especially in terms of data.
