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Google Unveils Artificial Intelligence Tool for Dermatology

by Jessica Kent

Google has announced a dermatology tool powered by artificial intelligence that will help users understand issues with their skin, hair, and nails. The tool uses many of the same techniques that...

Google Opens Office in MN to Enhance Mayo Clinic Partnership

by Jessica Kent

Google has announced its first office in Rochester, Minnesota, a new space that will help the tech giant deepen its long-term strategic partnership with Mayo Clinic. The two organizations launched...

Google Launches Data Analytics Solution to Expand Vaccine Access

by Jessica Kent

Google Cloud has announced the Intelligent Vaccine Impact solution, a set of data analytics technologies to help regional and local governments ensure vaccine availability and deliver successful...

Working Toward Seamless Care Delivery with Real-Time Data

by Jessica Kent

Current care delivery is, for the most part, conducted on an episodic basis. Patients generally see their doctors when they don’t feel well, limiting clinicians’ ability to provide...

Amazon Launches Service for Big Data Analytics in Healthcare

by Jessica Kent

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service that aims to support interoperability standards and further drive the use of big data analytics in...

Mayo Clinic, Google to Create Artificial Intelligence for Cancer Care

by Jessica Kent

Mayo Clinic and Google Health have announced a partnership to develop artificial intelligence that can help accelerate the process of planning radiotherapy treatments, leading to more efficient cancer...

3 States to Use Apple, Google COVID-19 Contact Tracing System

by Jessica Kent

Alabama, North Dakota, and South Carolina are the first states to publicly comment about using Apple and Google’s COVID-19 contact tracing technology, now available to public health agencies on...

Could COVID-19 Help Refine AI, Data Analytics in Healthcare?

by Jessica Kent

In the months since COVID-19 has evolved from a blip on the world’s radar to a full-blown global health crisis, the virus has managed to shine a glaring light on some of healthcare’s most foundational cracks.  Gaps in...

HCA, Google Cloud Launch COVID-19 Data Sharing Platform

by Jessica Kent

HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud have established a new open data platform designed to promote data sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource page,...

Google Makes COVID-19 Datasets Freely Available to Researchers

by Jessica Kent

Google Cloud is offering researchers free access to critical coronavirus information through its COVID-19 Public Dataset Program, which will help accelerate analytics solutions during the global...

White House Urges AI Experts to Develop Tools for COVID-19 Dataset

by Jessica Kent

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has issued a call to action for experts to build artificial intelligence tools that can be applied to a new COVID-19 dataset. For more...

FDA Makes Real-World Data Available on Google Cloud Platform

by Jessica Kent

The FDA’s MyStudies platform, a tool that aims to collect real-world data to improve clinical trials and advance medical research, is now available on Google Cloud Platform. Launched in November...

Google Uses Artificial Intelligence to Detect Breast Cancer

by Jessica Kent

An artificial intelligence model developed by Google and other entities was able to identify breast cancer in screening mammograms with greater accuracy, fewer false positives, and fewer false...

Artificial Intelligence Company DeepMind Joins Google Health

by Jessica Kent

DeepMind, a UK-based company, is teaming up with Google Health to tap into expertise in areas like artificial intelligence, app development, data security, and cloud storage. For the last three years,...

Providers Use Automated Deep Learning to Develop Diagnostic Models

by Jessica Kent

Using automated deep learning tools, physicians with no coding experience were able to develop medical image diagnostic classifiers, showing that automated deep learning is a viable way to increase the...

Machine Learning Improves Medical Eye Imaging Resolution

by Jessica Kent

Researchers at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have developed a machine learning algorithm that can increase the resolution of optical coherence tomography (OCT), an imaging...

Google, Sanofi to Use Deep Learning for Healthcare Innovation

by Jessica Kent

Google and Sanofi have partnered to launch a virtual Healthcare Innovation Lab, which will use deep learning and other data analytics technologies to transform the delivery of medicine and health...

Google Develops Deep Learning Tool to Enhance Lung Cancer Detection

by Jessica Kent

A deep learning tool built by researchers at Google detected lung cancer as well as or better than human radiologists, showing the potential for AI to boost chances of survival for patients at...

Google Adds Local Opioid Disposal Data to Maps, Search

by Jennifer Bresnick

Google is working to support public health by adding detailed opioid disposal site data to its maps and search results, according to a blog post from the tech company. Recognizing that the majority of...

Health-Related Google Searches Increase Just Before ED Visit

by Jennifer Bresnick

The number of online searches for health-related information spikes right before a patient presents to the emergency department, indicating that Dr. Google remains a key player in patient health...