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   Google reveals 6 ways it's using AI to improve health care, from crowdsourced   
   advice to personalized cancer treatments   
      
   Date:   
   Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:29:57 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Google has shared a swathe of ways it's using AI to improve people's health.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   At its annual The Check Up event, Google has shared six ways it says it's   
   using AI to improve health care and advances in medicine and science.    
      
   The company claims "AI can lead to scientific progress and cutting-edge   
   products that help improve health outcomes for people all around the world."   
   While some of the benefits of tools like Gemini are much more obvious when it   
   comes to sifting through emails or doing research, the medical application    
   can appear less obvious, although no less exciting.    
      
   Here are the six developments the company shared , including one that I think   
   might cause some concern.   
      
   1. AI Overviews Search improvements   
      
   The first development is a change to Google's AI Overviews in Search, which I   
   believe will have the biggest day-to-day impact on Google users and should be   
   treated with the most caution.    
      
   Google says Search and AI Overviews "to find credible and relevant    
   information about health, from common illnesses to rare conditions," and that   
   it's improving the AI Overview results on health topics to be "so theyre more   
   relevant, comprehensive and continue to meet a high bar for clinical   
   factuality."    
      
   The change is a new What people suggest section. "While people come to Search   
   to find reliable medical information from experts, they also value hearing   
   from others who have similar experiences," Google says.    
      
   To that end, AI will organize different perspectives from online discussions   
   to help you sift through helpful experiences from people in similar   
   situations. The example Google uses is a person dealing with arthritis who   
   might want to know how other people with the condition exercise.    
      
   Obviously, there's the potential for misinformation to surface here. Google's   
   image includes a disclaimer that the results are "for informational purposes   
   only" and suggests consulting a medical professional for advice or diagnosis.    
      
   As with everything you read on Google, a level of caution and discernment is   
   required, all of this information already exists on the internet, Google is   
   just trying to make the helpful stuff easier to find. Real-world results will   
   determine whether or not it's successful.   
      
   2. Medical Records changes    
      
   Google has also launched a new Medical Records API globally in Health    
   Connect, which lets apps read and write medical record information like   
   allergies and medications in a standard format that you can share with your   
   doctor's office.   
      
   3. Pixel Watch 3 Loss of Pulse Detection    
      
   Announced last month, the Pixel Watch 3 , one of the best Android    
   smartwatches , is getting Loss of Pulse Detection in the US at the end of   
   March. The tool can automatically call emergency services and notify people   
   close by if your heart stops beating.   
      
   4. AI co-scientist    
      
   Google's recently launched AI co-scientist can help researchers "parse large   
   volumes of scientific literature and generate high-quality, novel    
   hypotheses." Google says the tool won't automate the scientific process but    
   is designed "to help experts uncover new ideas and accelerate their work."    
   The company says it's already being used in Imperial College London and   
   Stanford.   
      
   5. TxGemma    
      
   Google has launched a new collection of Gemma-based models it hopes "will    
   help improve the efficiency of AI-powered drug discovery." The AI can   
   "understand regular text and the structures of different therapeutic    
   entities, like small molecules, chemicals, and proteins," which means   
   researchers can use it to predict how safe or effective new therapies and   
   drugs might be.   
      
   6. Cancer treatment    
      
   Finally, Google highlighted how it's helping a hospital in the Netherlands   
   develop an AI tool that can "accelerate the identification of personalized   
   cancer treatments by combining vast public medical data and de-identified   
   patient data." It can reportedly generate "summaries of treatment options and   
   relevant medical publications," giving Doctors more time to focus on patient   
   care.    
      
   The efficacy and reach of all of these initiatives remain to be seen, but   
   Google's update is a clear sign that as AI continues to permeate the world   
   around us, its advance into every facet of life including medicine appears   
   inevitable. With lives at stake and patient well-being on the line, getting    
   it right is more important than ever, but the rewards for success are also   
   infinitely greater.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/google-reveals-6-w   
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