Google has made no secret of its collaboration with healthcare providers on computing tools to improve patient care. Ascension could also use Google computing tools to allow employees to communicate and collaborate securely in real time from different sites, the post by Google cloud industry products and solutions president Tariq Shaukat said. Google disclosed little about what it is testing in Project Nightingale as it competes to be the preferred platform for patients and healthcare providers. “Google is really doubling-down on healthcare,” Wedbush Research managing director Daniel Ives said. “Healthcare is really the next frontier that Google, Amazon, IBM, Apple and others are going after.”

Source: Taipei Times November 13, 2019 16:00 UTC