Healthcare IT News December 5, 2017
The company also made DeepVariant, which can be used to improve the accuracy of genomic sequencing, available through Google Cloud.
Google announced Monday an open source version of DeepVariant, the artificial intelligence tool that last year earned the highest accuracy rating at the precision FDA’s Truth Challenge.
The open source tool comes as academic medical centers, hospitals, insurance companies and other healthcare organizations are gearing up for if not already embarking on artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning as well as precision medicine and the genomic sequencing that entails.
Likewise, Google rivals IBM and Microsoft are all moving into the healthcare AI space while much speculation surrounds Apple and Amazon making forays into the space.
Google Brain Team members...