Google has recently sharpened its focus in healthcare, where it’s looking to deploy AI throughout the fragmented ecosystem.
It’s tackling the issue on all fronts, from investing in AI-enabled care models via Google Ventures, to forging partnerships through its Google Cloud division, to launching new products that tailor generative AI to healthcare use cases.
These moves seek not only to address the challenges facing the sector, but also to strategically differentiate Google from big tech peers like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Amazon — all of whom are making concerted efforts to integrate AI into healthcare.
To this end, Google’s focus on researching AI safety and reducing bias, alongside its release of healthcare-specific foundation models that support HIPAA compliance, adds to its competitive edge in a field where data protection and privacy are critical.
Using CB Insights data, we uncovered 7 strategic priorities in healthcare highlighted by Google’s acquisitions, investments, and partnerships since Q1’21. We then categorized companies by their business relationships with Google across these priorities:
- AI-powered drug discovery
- Chronic disease care
- Healthcare data & analytics
- Mental health tech
- Radiology AI
- RCM tech
- Women’s health tech
