HealthTech July 15, 2019
The tech giant is harnessing patient data and AI to develop a host of tools designed to transform the delivery of care.
Recent business moves by Google and its parent company Alphabet prove that the tech giant is investing heavily in artificial intelligence and data with hopes to reinvent the $3 trillion U.S. healthcare industry.
Staffing and corporate acquisitions are chief among them. In November, Google hired David Feinberg, the former CEO for Geisinger Health, to lead the company’s Google Health initiative. Days later, it absorbed DeepMind Health, part of a British artificial intelligence company that produced an AI-powered assistant for nurses and doctors.
Both strategies are key to developing a wide range of complex and intuitive tools....