Becker's Healthcare June 20, 2018
Julie Spitzer

Google parent company Alphabet and its many subsidiaries — including Verily, Calico and Deepmind — hold more than 150 patents in life sciences and operate a number of partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, but how has the tech giant been making an impact on healthcare?

To find out, The Medical Futurist took a deep dive into Google’s healthcare ambitions and drew conclusions and predictions about all of big tech’s — Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft — moves into the healthcare arena. Here are five highlights:

1. Microsoft could take on AI. Microsoft launched a healthcare division based in its Cambridge research hub that is exploring health applications for AI in September 2017.

2. Apple could turn Siri into a medical chat...

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