Motley Fool December 12, 2020
Jason Hawthorne

The search giant is making a lot of moves that add up to a powerful offering for the healthcare industry.

Everyone thinks of Alphabet as an advertising company with nine products boasting over 1 billion users. That’s fair. The company’s Google search engine, Gmail, and YouTube are dominant in their categories. But there is another area where the company has been busy that doesn’t draw as much attention. Healthcare could be the industry where Alphabet finds its next big product, and the company’s strategy is painting a clear picture of where it might materialize.

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Cloud, Digital Health, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Healthcare System, Technology
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