The real pressure is is this really going to help millions of people? , Feinberg said at the Wall Street Journal Health Tech virtual conference Wednesday. Is it Google scale? That s the pressure.
However, there s no doubt the company has a vested interest in healthcare across several business units. For instance, Google Cloud is partnering with HCA Healthcare, a healthcare provider based in Tennessee, to develop algorithms based on patient records in an attempt to improve efficiency and patient outcomes.
The company hired Obama administration official Karen DeSalvo to the company in 2019. She led the company s Covid-19 efforts and recently announced the company is helping create a device that uses AI to detect skin conditions.