Google doesn’t miss a beat with purchase of health monitor startup Senosis
Google is seeking to bolster its digital health credentials with the purchase of Seattle based health monitoring startup Senosis.
Google doesn’t miss a beat with purchase of health monitor startup Senosis
Founded by serial tech entrepreneur Shwetak Patel, a University of Washington computer scientist, Senosis Health is the product of collaboration between campus clinicians, researchers and tech transfer specialists.
Together with a team of around 12 engineers and physicians they sought to transform the smartphones in our pockets into ever vigilant personal physicians capable of keeping tabs on a variety of metrics such as heart beat and hemoglobin counts.
Google has long pursued the holy grail of marrying technology, data science and healthcare in an effort to empower people to lead healthier and longer lives, culminating in the launch of a new subsidiary, Verily, to achieve just such a goal.
Patel and his fellow Senosis collaborators will migrate across to Alphabet under the deal to pursue this goal, although it is thought they will form the backbone of a standalone digital health unit.
Technology holds out prospect of revolutionising patient care with GE seeking to harness AI to improve outcomes.