Business Insider this past week.
VP of Engineering Shashidhar Thakur s move to Google s commerce wing would make him the third high-ranking executive to leave Google Health in five months.
As
BI noted, Google Health Director of Global Deployment Michael Macdonnell left in September, followed by U.K. lead Dr. Dominic King in October.
A Google representative declined to comment for this story.
WHY IT MATTERS
Google Health has made a number of notable partnerships in recent years, including with the Mayo Clinic with its work on artificial intelligence and machine learning.
According to Business Insider, however, former Google Health employees say the group still grapples with its long-term vision. The outlet also reported that Google Health struggles with cohesion, and with marrying its research vision to product management.
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Google Cloud pulled back the curtain yesterday on two artificial intelligence tools designed to help healthcare and life science organizations scan and analyze large volumes of unstructured text, the Healthcare Natural Language API and AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare.
The first of these two offerings looks to automatically extract common trends or other insights from medical records notes or other digital text that would normally require time-intensive manual review. According to the company, the machine learning tool discerns clinically relevant information based on the context of surrounding language, allowing the technology to, for instance, distinguish between past and newly prescribed medications.