Even GE and Predix had to obey laws of physics that weren’t susceptible to marketing. MRI machines (and their cousins) produce a staggering amount of data in a small amount of time. The files proved to be so big that the feats of real-time data analysis, file transfers, and machine learning that GE had envisioned happening seamlessly among hospitals and clinicians were too cumbersome to achieve quickly—if and when they could be performed at all.
