Google's parent aims to shape healthcare with AI

Google's parent company, Alphabet, is exploring many avenues to plunge deeper into healthcare including becoming an insurance company and developing artificial intelligence and machine learning-based medical tools.If the company succeeds at even a few of those initiatives, it stands to shape new AI-based models in healthcare, according to CB Insights, which analyzes data on venture capital and startups."Existing Alphabet is not the only consumer tech company making inroads into healthcare. Apple and Amazon have taken big steps into the industry, with Apple's patient data-aggregating Health app and