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The culture of an entity like Google is incompatible with implementing what they are trying to achieve.
How so?
I don't think they really care. Or take a more holistic (philosophical?) perspective, they don't have any incentives to make this work.
But, they already do. Smart watches and smart glasses already have similar things built for them. No reason medical apps and devices cannot use a similar integration.
I am talking about a more higher level.
Imagine the meetings of mail.ru/VK leadership on new UX and initiatives. They are not idiots and they may have good ideas and yet it is reasonable to be sceptical of their ability to implement such initiatives (even if there is genuine desire) because they operate under certain restrictive parameters.
And so does Google. A high-level example, they will always claim any regulation is bad even if it does has zero impact on their business. Even if regulation may be the best option forward.
Do you trust mail.ru/VK? I don't trust mail.ru/VK or Google, irrespective of the situation at hand.
Now back to the low level stuff, this thing will be abandoned in a year or two once the product manager gets promoted. We've seen this before and we will see it again.
Hopefully google learned from the nightmare that PWA were, specifically with websites taking advantage of the features to spam you with shit if you make the tiniest mistake when giving them permissions.
Not long for Outlook to seek medical history permission.