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Google’s parent company Alphabet is one of the most prolific firms changing the healthcare sphere today. And like its other ventures, it may be mainly about data.
Alphabet has made several acquisitions in the health sphere in recent years, including the purchase of a health app developer.
The juggernaut also has its own life sciences research unit, Verily, dedicated to developing tools to help researchers collect and parse data.
Like Apple, Alphabet is also active in sponsoring actual health studies. Its research division is one of the chief finances of a wide-ranging health study called Project Baseline.
And Google is adding A.I. into the mix as well. Just recently, the company developed a predictive technology that could forecast when a hospital patient will die.