UnitedHealth Group's Optum poses the biggest perceived threat to hospital and health system executives worried about non-hospital competitors that offer consumer-friendly health services, according to Kaufman Hall's 2019 State of Consumerism in Healthcare report.
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Within the next decade, healthcare will see emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, predictive analytics and blockchain spurring billions of dollars in value increases, according to a new McKinsey & Company report on this tech-driven "era of exponential growth."
Google is developing a deep learning model that can detect early-stage lung cancer in CT scans up to a year before a trained radiologist's diagnosis, the tech giant announced at its annual I/O developer conference on May 7.
Andrew Moore, PhD, dean of the school of computer science at Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University, will leave his role at the university to head up Google Cloud's artificial intelligence efforts full-time at the end of 2018.
Although there are still significant challenges hospitals must overcome before they adopt artificial intelligence across their operations, AI holds a lot of promise in healthcare, freelance journalist Larry Alton wrote in Venture Beat.
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Microsoft Research on Feb. 1 established the Cortana Intelligence Institute in partnership with the company's Cortana Research team and RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Seventy-three percent of C-suite executives and IT decision makers agree artificial intelligence has transformed the way they do business, according to a survey by IT consultancy Infosys.
Google unveiled the first class of startups for its artificial intelligence-focused accelerator, called Google Developers Launchpad Studio, according to a Nov. 1 company blog post.
Apple's mobile devices could become a major artificial intelligence platform in the future, COO Jeff Williams said at an event in Taipei, Taiwan Monday, according to Reuters.
London-based artificial intelligence company DeepMind, which is owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, is training its software to fold proteins for drug discovery, reports Bloomberg.