Becker's Healthcare April 23, 2018
Jessica Kim Cohen

Market research firm CB Insights outlined eight potential initiatives Google and its parent company Alphabet may take to enter the healthcare industry in a recent report.

“Google is betting that the future of healthcare is going to be structured data and [artificial intelligence],” the report reads. “The company is applying AI to disease detection, new data infrastructure and potentially insurance. … In short, Google seems to be going after the healthcare space from every possible angle.”

Here are the eight potential entry points Google may take into the healthcare industry, according to the report.

1. Tackling specific diseases — such as eye conditions, diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis — from monitoring, to detection, to management

2. Creating...

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