Forbes July 1, 2019
Google is the latest company to stake its claim as king of health care technology. Streams, a tool to diagnose kidney disease, is being trialed by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Far more sophisticated tools are clearly in the pipeline. It recently unveiled “promising” artificial intelligence that can identify lung cancer a year before a doctor could.
So, What Is Google’s Game Plan?
On the face of it, and according to most media reports, big tech companies are rushing to get their AI technologies embedded into health care. Conservative health services stick with technologies for a long time, making first-mover advantage lucrative.
But look closer, and we see that Google is thinking much bigger. Google did not get where...
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