From intense efforts to invest in digital health technology to plans that scale AI for at-home health screenings, Google continues to establish a presence in the healthcare industry. Here are eight most recent healthcare moves from the company as reported by Becker's.
- Google's Care Studio expanded the capabilities of its clinician-facing search tool using artificial intelligence to summarize and contextualize physicians' clinical notes.
- Google's Care Studio was integrated into Meditech's EHR platform.
- Google Ventures was digital health's most active investor in 2021, closing 22 deals.
- Google technology experts will help advise startups that join Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic's 20-week AI program.
- Google posted three open job positions for its EHR tool, Care Studios.
- Google announced plans to roll out a feature that allows patients to view appointment availability for participating healthcare providers directly from its search page.
- Google's artificial intelligence natural language processing tool will be used by Mayo Clinic to better track and analyze language-based information in patients' EHRs.
- Google Health announced that it is working on three AI-based projects — a smartphone stethoscope, AI tech that can read prenatal ultrasounds and AI that can spot illness using the camera on a smartphone.