Healthcare DIVE March 6, 2024
The central Massachusetts nonprofit’s aim is to improve population health, but its partnership with Google on data management and AI could also lower costs.
UMass Memorial Health is working with Google Cloud to use the tech giant’s data and artificial intelligence capabilities to better connect patients with difficult-to-access drugs for conditions like diabetes and heart disease, Healthcare Dive has learned.
The partnership is a bid to improve population health, according to Google and UMass executives.
It should also help lower costs for UMass, a large integrated health system in central Massachusetts, as hospitals continue to look for ways to tamp down rising expenses.
UMass is first focusing on cardiometabolic conditions because they’re common in the system’s patient population, according to...
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