From creating new offerings that help health systems gather data from wearables, to expanding its partnerships with health systems, here are five healthcare moves from Google as reported by Becker's Hospital Review since Sept. 13:
- Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Health partnered Sept. 13 with Google Cloud to improve its healthcare data analytics and interoperability.
- Google Cloud and Fibit are launching a new service that aims to help hospitals gather and interpret data from wearables and fitness trackers. The new service, dubbed Device Connect for Fitbit, includes tools to help health systems and researchers manage enrollment, consent and quickly add wearables data to the cloud to easily access analytics and visualization tools.
- Google is working with an addiction treatment center in Ohio to help tackle the opioid crisis happening in the state. The Dayton facility, OneFifteen, enters patients' drug use history, along with their medical records, into a database operated by Verily Life Sciences, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, to provide individualized treatment plans.
- Google Cloud partnered with Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health to help the health system deidentify massive amounts of imaging data and build AI algorithms to predict metastasis in patients with prostate cancer.
- Google Cloud unveiled a new software program that uses artificial intelligence for medical imaging diagnostics. The program, Medical Imaging Suite, aims to provide more accurate diagnoses, increase productivity for providers and improve interoperability.