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Doctor doing telehealth
By  Mallory Hackett 03:15 pm August 9, 2021
The pandemic has led to a “complete transformation” in how many healthcare organizations operate due to the industry’s ongoing digital transformation, according to Thomas Kurian the CEO of Google Cloud. Kurian joined HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf today in a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session where the two looked back on the last 18 months and offered insights into what the future of...
Doctor using a tablet
By  Mallory Hackett 04:38 pm July 29, 2021
One of the few silver linings to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic is healthcare’s digital transformation. The past year and a half saw increased rates of telehealth usage, record-breaking investments in digital health companies and more organizations adopting artificial intelligence in innovative ways. In a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session set to air on Monday, August 9, Hal Wolf, the...
By  Dave Muoio 12:27 pm March 2, 2021
In December, Highmark Health announced a six-year collaboration with Google Cloud that the companies said would lay down the infrastructure of the integrated delivery network's data-driven Living Health Dynamic Platform. Today, the organizations unveiled plans to get Verily and its Onduo chronic care subsidiary in on the action as well. Through another six-year partnership, the partners will work...
The Intelligent Vaccine Impact solution promises to increase the “availability and equitable access” of vaccines while assisting governments in the distribution process.
By  Mallory Hackett 12:00 pm February 3, 2021
Google Cloud has joined the growing list of tech companies creating tools to support the national COVID-19 vaccination effort with the launch of its Intelligent Vaccine Impact solution. The tool is designed to help regional and local governments vaccinate their populations by supplying them with a central location to share vaccine information, schedule inoculation appointments, track vaccine...
By  MobiHealthNews 10:15 am December 22, 2020
Considering the size and scope of Alphabet, it should be little surprise that the company and its subsidiaries (Google, Google Cloud and Verily, to name a few) have become deeply ingrained in the healthcare ecosystem over the last several years. The tech giant maintained the momentum in 2020 with efforts focused on artificial intelligence, data flow and digital clinical research – and also sought...
With the platform, Highmark will support patients and clinicians to increase their engagement throughout the healthcare journey.
By  Mallory Hackett 01:26 pm December 17, 2020
Highmark Health, in collaboration with Google Cloud, today announced its Living Health model and corresponding platform that aims to reshape how healthcare is delivered to be a more coordinated, personalized and technology-enabled experience. Throughout the companies’ six-year strategic partnership, Highmark will support its Living Health model through the development of the Living Health Dynamic...
An image of the AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare tool
By  Dave Muoio 01:55 pm November 11, 2020
Google Cloud pulled back the curtain yesterday on two artificial intelligence tools designed to help healthcare and life science organizations scan and analyze large volumes of unstructured text, the Healthcare Natural Language API and AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare. The first of these two offerings looks to automatically extract common trends or other insights from medical records notes...
By  Mallory Hackett 11:49 am September 8, 2020
In collaboration with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), Google Cloud will supply Department of Defense medical facilities with a prototypical artificial intelligence digital-pathology system. The project is intended to help physicians improve the accuracy of cancer diagnoses by providing DoD medical centers with augmented reality microscopes with overlaid AI technology. The prototype will...
By  Laura Lovett 02:00 pm August 25, 2020
Telehealth giant Amwell has officially filed to go public, fueled with a $100 million funding boost from Google’s cloud division.  The funding also comes with a partnership agreement, which designates Amwell as Google Cloud's preferred telehealth provider, and vice versa for Google’s cloud platform. The pair will also collaborate on technology, specifically bringing together AmWell’s telehealth...
By  Laura Lovett 01:10 pm January 30, 2020
This morning, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Google Cloud and digital clinical trial startup ProofPilot inked a deal to create a new clinical research platform targeted at academic medical centers and universities.  The trio plan to kick off this new platform with a study called “Piloting Time-Restricted Feeding (TRF) for Bipolar Disorder” at MGH.  The new collaboration will tap into...