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3 Ways Google Is Taking Healthcare Tech to New Heights | HealthTech Magazine
Recent business moves by Google and its parent company Alphabet prove that the tech giant is investing heavily in artificial intelligence and data with hopes to reinvent the $3 trillion U.S. healthcare industry.
Staffing and corporate acquisitions are chief among them. In November, Google hired David Feinberg, the former CEO for Geisinger Health, to lead the company’s Google Health initiative. Days later, it absorbed DeepMind Health, part of a British artificial intelligence company that produced an AI-powered assistant for nurses and doctors.
Both strategies are key to developing a wide range of complex and intuitive tools.
“AI holds the potential for some of the biggest advances we are going to see,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said last year at a town hall event in San Francisco. “You know whenever I see the news of a young person dying of cancer, you realize AI is going to play a role in solving that in the future, so I think we owe it to make progress.”
Here’s a look at some of the transformative technologies in development:
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