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The Intelligent Vaccine Impact solution promises to increase the “availability and equitable access” of vaccines while assisting governments in the distribution process.   

There was no shortage of variety among the 2020 healthcare initiatives from Alphabet's major business units.

With the platform, Highmark will support patients and clinicians to increase their engagement throughout the healthcare journey.

This week's top stories include the Supreme Court appearing favorable to keeping the Affordable Care Act, Google Cloud unveiling AI tools for analyzing unstructured medical text, and Epic customers gaining access to a COVID-19 risk prediction model.

Now available in public preview, the offerings are designed to help organizations and individuals pull clinically-relevant insights from large volumes of free text housed in medical records.

This week's top stories include the VA giving scheduling technology a test run, a requirement that nursing homes test their staffs for COVID-19 and Amwell getting a $100 million funding boost from Google Cloud.

Google's cloud division poured in $100 million in funding to the telehealth company, along with the deal. 

The new collaboration will kick off with a study focused on bipolar disorder and time-restricted feeding.  

The Mayo Clinic is partnering with Google Cloud to find the next breakthroughs that diagnose and treat complex and serious illness or conditions more effectively, says CIO Cris Ross.