American Hospital Association February 26, 2019
Google and its Alphabet and Verily units that are targeting health care certainly aren’t thinking small. Here are several ambitious health care projects that the companies are undertaking, based on a recent CNBC report.
Predicting Medical Events
One of several machine-learning projects underway at Google Brain, the parent company’s research group, involves predicting future medical events based on a massive store of clinical data provided by San Francisco-area hospitals. Its computers might soon be able to determine whether patients are at higher risk of a life-threatening condition like sepsis or are at higher risk for readmission. Another product that Google has been working on for years, an app called Streams, is designed to help doctors identify early signs of kidney...
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