Larry Page wants patients to hand over their data to researchers in order to save "100,000 lives".
It's just one of the ideas expressed in a wide-ranging interview at the Ted (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in Vancouver.
Google's co-founder criticised the US government for its mass surveillance programs.
But he added that consumers need to accept that a new era of open data is inevitable.
Smarter computers : Interviewed on the Ted stage by US television host Charlie Rose, Mr Page was asked why Google bought the UK machine learning firm DeepMind.
"I was looking at search and trying to understand how to make computers less clunky and also thinking about how speech recognition is not very good," said Mr Page.
"We are still at the very early stages with search. Computers don't know where you are and what you are doing," he added.
He was drawn to DeepMind because it had helped make computers smarter - teaching them how to play computer games.
"It was really exciting, we have not been able to do this before. Imagine if that intelligence is thrown at your schedule," said Mr Page.
He said that Google was working on its own machine learning project, using YouTube to "teach" computers.
Tremendous disservice : Mr Page was also asked about the Edward Snowden revelations, following a surprise appearance from the whistle-blower at Ted.
"It is disappointing that the government secretly did this stuff and didn't tell us about it," said Mr Page.
"It is not possible to have a democracy if we have to protect our users from the government. The government has done itself a tremendous disservice and we need to have a debate about it," he added.
Google has had its fair share of criticism for the way it collects users data. It is currently embroiled in row with European regulators over its privacy policy.
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