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By  Anthony Vecchione 02:09 pm February 18, 2025
Google announced it is partnering with the Institute of Women's Cancers, founded by France's cancer research and treatment center, Institut Curie, to study how AI tools can help address cancer, share science-based health information and support postdoctoral researchers with funding. The partnership, which was announced at the France AI Action Summit, combines Institut Curie’s proficiency in...
A patient in a virtual consultation with a doctor
By  Adam Ang 10:47 pm February 6, 2025
Healthengine allows direct booking from Google Primary care booking platform Healthengine has added a new booking pathway in partnership with Google. The Reserve with Google feature allows patients to book appointments directly from a practice's Google Business profile upon search. "This can help to boost online visibility, reduce drop-offs and increase appointment volumes," Healthengine said...
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By  Anthony Vecchione 11:31 am February 5, 2025
Digital health startup Drive Health, launched an AI health assistant in collaboration with Google Public Sector. The aim of Nurse Avery is to serve as a secure, responsive and personalized healthcare assistant.  The application offers access to care plan details, medication instructions and answers to symptom-related questions, while facilitating communication with providers.  The AI assistant's...
Doctor in scrubs standing in front of computer screens
By  Jessica Hagen 08:00 am December 31, 2024
Executives highlighted AI's transformative potential in healthcare when asked by MobiHealthNews how they see AI's place in the sector changing in 2025.  Some expect multimodal AI and advanced diagnostic imaging to make significant strides next year, while others showcased AI's promise in improving diagnostics, addressing provider burnout, automating tasks, streamlining drug development and...
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By  Jessica Hagen and Anthony Vecchione 11:54 am December 20, 2024
MobiHealthNews reached out to executives from across the digital health landscape and questioned them about unexpected and impactful occurrences from the past year.  Leaders singled out the closing of retail clinics, challenges in the Medicare Advantage market, the FDA's concerns about off-label advertising, the wide variety of AI use cases and the plethora of uses for GLP-1s beyond weight...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:33 pm December 12, 2024
MobiHealthNews asked executives from across the digital health industry – in places from Fortune 500 companies to emerging startups – to share their biggest takeaways from 2024. Their responses highlight a diverse range of perspectives and insights. In part one of this two-part series on the biggest takeaways of the year, explore executives' thoughts on key trends, including the growing focus on...
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By  Jessica Hagen 03:55 pm November 26, 2024
Google has introduced Health AI Developer Foundations (HAI-DEF), a public resource for healthcare developers that provides open-weight models to help them build healthcare applications, initially focused on dermatology, radiology and pathology. Open-weight AI models are a type of black box AI technology that allows developers to apply and fine-tune a model for specific tasks, allowing them to...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:38 pm October 17, 2024
Google announced it is licensing its AI model focused on detecting diabetic retinopathy to partners in Thailand and India, two countries the tech giant says have a shortage of eye specialists.  Google Research teams partnered with foundational research partners Aravind Eye Hospital in India and Rajavithi Hospital in Thailand nearly a decade ago to research whether AI could be used to help reduce...
Person sitting in a chair while blowing their nose and talking to a healthcare provider on a computer
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:45 pm August 21, 2024
Salcit Technologies, an India-based respiratory healthcare company, has joined forces with the Google Research team to explore how Google’s Health Acoustic Representations (HeAR), can help expand the capabilities of Salcit’s bioacoustic AI technology Swaasa. Swaasa uses HeAR to help research and enhance early detection of tuberculosis based on cough sounds. “Every missed case of tuberculosis is a...
Jake Sunshine, research scientist at Google
By  Jessica Hagen 11:18 am August 16, 2024
Google research scientist Jake Sunshine sat down with MobiHealthNews at Google's Bay View headquarters on Tuesday during the tech giant's Made by Google event to discuss the first-of-its-kind loss of pulse detection technology available on the Pixel Watch 3.  The feature, initially available in the E.U. and U.K., detects signs of a loss of pulse, turns on infrared and red lights, and then looks...