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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...
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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...
Google's recently announced devices: Pixel 9, Pixel Watch 3, Pixel Buds Pro 2
By  Jessica Hagen 01:00 pm August 13, 2024
Google made numerous announcements during its Made by Google event at its Bay View headquarters on Tuesday, including the release of its latest smartwatch, Pixel Watch 3, with machine learning-enabled fitness capabilities and health-metrics tracking. The Pixel Watch 3 has some fitness aspects like previous versions, such as tracking a wearer's sleep, stress levels and vitals such as oxygen, skin...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:23 pm June 17, 2024
Google Research and Google DeepMind recently released a paper announcing the creation of a new LLM for drug discovery and therapeutic development dubbed Tx-LLM, fine-tuned from PaLM-2. Tx-LLM utilizes the tech giant's PaLM-2, its generative AI technology that uses Google's LLMs to answer medical questions.  The drug discovery-focused LLM was trained using 709 datasets to target 66 tasks across...
Healthcare provider in scrubs wearing a mask and looking at a large diagnostic image
By  Jessica Hagen 02:14 pm May 10, 2024
A study performed by Google Research, in collaboration with Google DeepMind, reveals the tech giant expanded the capabilities of its AI models for Med-Gemini-2D, Med-Gemini-3D and Med-Gemini Polygenic.  Google said it fine-tuned Med-Gemini capabilities using histopathology, dermatology, 2D and 3D radiology, genomic and ophthalmology data.  The company's Med-Gemini-2 was trained on conventional...
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By  Trevor Dermody 10:55 am April 3, 2024
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a statement from Pager. Virtual care and services navigation company Pager Health announced its developed three generative AI applications for payers built on Google Cloud, dubbed Chat Summation, FAQ Bot and Sentiment Analysis.  Chat Summation is a clinical documentation tool that summarizes patient interactions and provides notes, which the...
Healthcare provider looking at X-rays on a wall
By  Jessica Hagen 06:01 pm March 19, 2024
Google made several announcements during its Check Up event on Tuesday, including the release of its new MedLM for Chest X-ray, advancements in personalization at Fitbit Labs and the release of its Skin Condition Image Network (SCIN).  Dr. Karen DeSalvo, Google Health's chief health officer, kicked off The Check Up event by highlighting the increased use of AI in healthcare. "We are at an...
Google Fitbit Charge 6
By  Jessica Hagen 02:51 pm January 17, 2024
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a statement from Google.  Behemoth lab test company Quest Diagnostics is partnering with Google's Fitbit to study how wearable technologies can improve metabolic health.  The pilot study, dubbed Wearables for Metabolic Health (WEAR-ME), will combine Fitbit's behavioral and biometric data with health information from Quest Diagnostics' lab tests to...