Google Health finalized its complete acquisition of DeepMind, a U.K. startup the tech giant acquired for more than $500 million in 2014, according to a blog post by Google Health U.K. site lead Dr. Dominic King.
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CVS has poached former Fitbit and Walgreens executive Adam Pellegrini to lead its consumer health initiatives, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.
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.
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.
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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.
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.