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By  Trevor Dermody 02:53 pm April 10, 2024
Tech giant Google Cloud and global enterprise Bayer are partnering to develop AI applications aimed at reducing radiologist burnout and increasing efficiencies in diagnoses.   Bayer will expand its innovation platform by using Google Cloud technology, including its generative AI tools. Other tools that will be available on the platform include Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, BigQuery, Healthcare API...
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By  Trevor Dermody 10:55 am April 3, 2024
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a statement from Pager. Virtual care and services navigation company Pager Health announced its developed three generative AI applications for payers built on Google Cloud, dubbed Chat Summation, FAQ Bot and Sentiment Analysis.  Chat Summation is a clinical documentation tool that summarizes patient interactions and provides notes, which the...
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By  Adam Ang 01:08 am March 8, 2024
Magentus taps Google Cloud for genAI Magentus has engaged Google Cloud to help it build a "centralised and secure" foundation for customer data in the cloud, leveraging generative AI solutions and large language models. The health IT provider intends to assist clinicians in easily accessing information and simplifying the way they extract insights from complex, unstructured medical data, which...
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By  Jessica Hagen 10:33 am November 18, 2022
Google Cloud, health insurer Highmark Health and League, a platform that helps healthcare organizations and consumer health companies build digital tools, announced a partnership to build a digital health platform for Highmark members.  The My Highmark member portal provides the insurer's members with what the companies call a "digital front door," where they can navigate their care, pay bills,...
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By  Jessica Hagen 11:09 am October 17, 2022
During an earnings call Thursday, Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Roz Brewer said the pharmacy retail giant plans to acquire a tech asset as it boosts its ambitions in healthcare. "We're making important strides and consistent progress in building our next growth engine, the U.S. healthcare segment," Brewer said on the call.  Brewer said Walgreens' healthcare strategy is "coming to life" and is far...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:22 pm October 11, 2022
Rite Aid and Google Cloud announced a new multiyear partnership where Google Cloud will provide Rite Aid with technological insight to make its pharmacies more data-driven and personalized. The drugstore chain will migrate its key applications to Google Cloud's Anthos, a platform providing companies with machine learning analytics, data protection through security technology, team collaboration...
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By  Emily Olsen 12:10 pm September 27, 2022
On Tuesday, Fitbit Health Solutions and Google Cloud announced they're launching a new service to help healthcare and life science organizations utilize data from wearables. The company said that Device Connect for Fitbit allows patients to make their Fitbit data available to providers, giving these patients control over who they share their information with and for what purpose. The tool also...
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By  Emily Olsen 12:09 pm September 16, 2022
Period tracking app Flo released its previously announced anonymous mode, which the company said will allow users to access the app without associating their name, email address and technical identifiers with their health data.  Flo partnered with security firm Cloudflare to build the new feature and released a white paper detailing its technical specifications. Anonymous mode has been localized...
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By  Emily Olsen 11:33 am July 13, 2022
New York-based health system Northwell Health is partnering with Google Cloud to use cloud technology and artificial intelligence to automate administrative workflows and identify patient risk factors for early intervention. The collaboration will use Google's tech for scheduling, automating contact with payers and creating summaries of patient medical information. It will also use machine...
By  Randy Mulyanto 04:40 am July 4, 2022
Bio Farma, Indonesia's pharmaceutical state-owned enterprise holding, has partnered with Google Cloud, ConnectedLife and Fitbit through a new digital health initiative to support the Indonesian government's Healthy Indonesia blueprint and vision. Under the Preventive Care Medwell initiative, the parties have developed a personalised virtual platform called ConnectedLife with Fitbit, touted to be...