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...
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...
Med-tech company iCAD announced it would incorporate Google Health's mammography AI technology into its breast-imaging solutions thanks to a strategic development and commercialization agreement.
Cancer detection and therapy solutions platform iCAD will utilize Google's AI breast-imaging technology in its portfolio, including its clinical decision support tool for breast cancer risk-estimation...
Google’s healthcare business looks a lot different at the end of 2021 compared with the beginning of the year.
The tech giant overhauled its strategy this year, eventually dismantling its health division. However, it still released a variety of tools for both consumers and clinicians, with a particular focus on healthcare accessibility and managing COVID-19 as the pandemic moved into its second...
Google is shutting down its clinician support app Streams. TechCrunch reported the shutdown days after the news broke that Google is dismantling its health division.
The app allowed clinicians easier access patient info like vital signs, blood tests and imaging results. Streams had been used in the U.K.’s National Health Service, but TechCrunch reported nearly all NHS Trusts had stopped using the...
Google is changing its healthcare strategy and dismantling its health division, according to an Insider report.
In an internal memo obtained by Insider, the initiatives once housed in the division will now be under more general umbrellas. For example, Google’s AI healthcare team will now report to the president of search and AI, and Dr. Karen DeSalvo, Google’s CMO, as well as the division’s...
Google is reportedly shaking things up in its health division. The company is moving more than 130 of its roughly 700 Google Health employees to Search and its new Fitbit group, according to an Insider report.
Insider's sources say that none of the teams left at Google Health will focus on consumer tech. This news comes roughly six months after Google officially purchased Fitbit for roughly $2.1...
Google Health has announced a new wellness feature coming to its Google Fit mobile app that uses machine learning to give users heart rate and respiratory rate readings without the need for any hardware other than their smartphone's camera.
The two tools are slated to launch for all Pixel devices in the next month, and will come to additional Android devices running version 6 within the months to...
Considering the size and scope of Alphabet, it should be little surprise that the company and its subsidiaries (Google, Google Cloud and Verily, to name a few) have become deeply ingrained in the healthcare ecosystem over the last several years.
The tech giant maintained the momentum in 2020 with efforts focused on artificial intelligence, data flow and digital clinical research – and also sought...
In a bid to improve clinical research participation and engagement, the Google Health team announced this morning the launch of a new Android app that streamlines study recruitment for consumers and shows them how survey and sensor data are being employed for health research.
Off the bat, the Google Health Studies app allows users to view a list of open studies and review the inclusion criteria...
