Forbes September 10, 2019
The Mayo Clinic and Google are partnering to accelerate the delivery of healthcare “through digital technologies.”
Mayo said its selection of “Google Cloud” is designed to be “the cornerstone of its digital transformation” as part of a 10-year partnership with Google, a unit of Alphabet. Financial terms of the deal announced Tuesday weren’t disclosed but Google will be making a sizable investment in the relationship by opening a new office in Rochester, where Mayo is based, so its engineers can work closely with Mayo researchers, doctors and data scientists.
“Health care is one of the most important fields that technology will help transform over the next decade, and it’s a major area of investment for Google,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai...