DIGITAL HEALTH BRIEFING: Google AI can predict heart attacks from eye scans -- Lyft, Hitch Health partner for medical transport -- Nokia executive sees no path for Digital Health

Welcome to Digital Health Briefing, a new email providing the latest news, data, and insight on how digital technology is disrupting the healthcare ecosystem, produced by Business Insider Intelligence. Sign up and receive Digital Health Briefing free to your inbox. We'd like to hear from you. GOOGLE'S AI HELPS TO PREDICT CARDIOVASCULAR CONDITIONS BY ANALYZING EYE SCANS: Google and Verily -- Google-parent Alphabet's life sciences unit -- are exploring new ways that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to identify patients' risk of suffering from a cardiovascular event, such as a heart attack or stroke, according to a newly published study by the two Alphabet subsidiaries. The report describes how Google's AI analyzes noninvasive retinal fundus scans -- scans of the back of the eye -- to deduce the individual's age, sex, blood pressure, and whether they're a smoker.