National Alliance on Mental Illness

Google partners with VA, National Alliance on Mental Illness to offer PTSD screening

By Dave Muoio 02:57 pm December 5, 2017

When mobile users perform a Google search for PTSD or a related query on their mobile device, the search engine will now automatically offer them resources and a validated screening questionnaire for the condition. The effort — a partnership between Google, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for PTSD — looks to increase the...

Google taps National Alliance on Mental Illness to add depression screener to search

By Jonah Comstock 02:47 pm August 29, 2017

While Google the company -- now known as Alphabet -- has spun its health operations into several growing subsidiaries, Google the search engine continues to be one of the major ways people seek to learn about their health. To its credit, Google has displayed an awareness of the "ask Dr. Google" phenomenon and over the years has steadily improved what people see when they make health-related...