Search Tag: Google

IT Management

Google-introduces-cutting-edge-ai-models-for-healthcare

2023 14 Dec

Google has recently announced MedLM, an innovative suite of artificial intelligence models tailored for healthcare applications. These models are specifically designed to assist clinicians and researchers in conducting complex studies, summarising interactions between doctors and patients, and addressing various healthcare-related challenges.  ...Read more

ICU Management

The-internet-rise-of-ai-in-ccm-opportunities-threats-and-the-practitioner-patient-relationship

2023 30 Nov

This article explores how pervasive and persuasive the internet is in current critical care practice, offers insights into how healthcare professionals, patients and fami­lies can critically appraise where information comes from and its content producers and discusses the opportunities and threats posed by AI on the physicians/team-patient/family...Read more

IT Management

Ai-experts-issue-statement-warning-on-ai-risks

2023 01 Jun

This week AI industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, academics and even several celebrities issued a new warning regarding the dangers and impacts that AI could potentially pose.   The statement said “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such...Read more

IT Management

Covid-19-contact-tracing-apps-vs-manual-work

2020 22 May

A milestone contact tracing software has been released by Apple-Google, but the future of its adoption is yet unclear, with some countries instead relying on manual collection of COVID-19 data.   You may also like : Will Contact Tracing Work?   This week Apple and Google have released the ‘Exposure Notification’ software, which...Read more

Executive Health Management

How-will-famga-shakeup-healthcare

2020 29 Jan

Summary: The big tech players are all making inroads into healthcare, bringing their industry know-how into a sector that is traditionally slow to adapt to change. Whether their impact will ultimately result in better resource management and cost savings remains to be seen, but they are definitely a force to be reckoned with. There is no doubt...Read more

IMAGING Management

Ai-breast-cancer-diagnosis-matches-two-doctors

2020 02 Jan

A newly-published study in the journal Nature suggests that AI diagnoses breast cancer from mammograms more accurately than radiologists.   A computer, specially designed and trained by a team of researchers from international bodies such as Google Health and Imperial College London, performed as well as two doctors working together....Read more

IT Management

Google-acquires-fitbit

2019 11 Nov

Tech giant Google's formal purchase of Fitbit, the world's second largest wearable maker, in a deal worth $2.1 billion, finally put an end to a month of rumours.   In a blog post announcing the acquisition, Google's SVP of devices and services, Rick Osterloh, wrote the company sees "an opportunity to invest even more in Wear OS as well...Read more

IMAGING Management

Google-northwestern-ai-finds-cancer-before-radiologists

2019 21 May

Google and Northwestern scientists show precision of new deep learning system to predict lung cancer An artificial intelligence system, using deep learning, successfully detected malignant lung nodules on low-dose chest computed tomography (LDCT) scans, performing equal to, or better than expert radiologists, according to a new study from...Read more

IT Management

Google-exec-on-cloud-potential-in-2019

2019 08 Jan

While the New Year is upon us, there are certain things that will continue to play an increasing role in healthcare such as artificial intelligence (AI), telemedicine, and cloud computing.       Healthcare is witnessing an explosion in the amount of data generated from patient records (EHRs), mHealth devices, and research studies, among...Read more

IT Management

Google-and-fitbit-collaborate-on-tech-and-wearables

2018 09 May

Fitness wearables and apps help patients to take a more active role in their wellness and chronic disease management. While data from wearables benefit the users (patients), these are often not readily accessible to care providers who could use such data to inform treatment decisions. To address this problem, Google and Fitbit have announced a new...Read more

IT Management

Google-new-cloud-api-to-address-healthcare-data-interop-challenges

2018 20 Mar

Interoperability remains a major problem when it comes to managing healthcare data. In some large hospitals, even the sharing of information between care teams is sometimes difficult because the EHR system used in one department may be different from the EHRs used in other departments. To address these interoperability concerns, Google has launched...Read more

IT Management

Google-ai-precision-medicine-tool-open-source

2017 12 Dec

Google has made available to the open source community its new deep-learning based technology that will be useful in broadening our knowledge of genomics. DeepVariant, developed by the Google Brain team, is designed to reconstruct the true genome sequence from high-throughput sequencing (HTS) sequencer data with significantly greater accuracy than...Read more

IT Management

Life-sciences-first-new-company-under-google-s-alphabet

2015 22 Aug

In a blog published this morning, Google's co-founder and Alphabet President Sergey Brin announced LIfe Sciences as the first new company created under the Alphabet umbrella. This does not come as a surprise since Alphabet CEO Larry Page had already announced that life sciences and biotechnology will be a core area of focus for the newly restructured...Read more

IT Management

Google-partners-with-dexcom

2015 13 Aug

After the recent big news about Google reinventing itself as Alphabet, Google has now announced that it will be partnering up with Dexcom, a leading glucose-monitoring company. This is Google's second major diabetes venture, the first being a partnership with Novartis where both companies will be developing a smart contact lens that helps monitor glucose...Read more

IT Management

Facing-facts-google-unveils-new-view-of-medical-searches

2015 12 Feb

Google announced this week that it plans to improve the way that medical information is presented during online searches. One in every 20 Google searches are related to health, according to the company. The hope is that curious healthcare consumers will be better served by the dissemination of accurate, physician-verified data in an environment of...Read more

Executive Health Management

Googling-guidelines-the-ethics-of-physicians-investigating-patients-online

2015 04 Feb

Formal guidelines which address physicians’ use of the internet and social media should be updated to include the ethics of physicians conducting online searches to learn more about their patients, say Penn State College of Medicine researchers. At the moment, there is a “Google blind spot” which is not discussed in professional guidelines such as...Read more

IT Management

Forecasting-the-flu-with-social-network-analysis

2015 29 Jan

A study in the online journal Scientific Reports claims that scientists can accurately predict how the flu will spread a week into the future. Using social network analysis, researchers at the University of California (UC) in San Diego combined traditional data with big data to boost the network’s predictive power. Corresponding author Michael...Read more

IT Management

Google-unveils-google-fit

2014 02 Nov

Google recently launched its health-push with a new Android app that tracks activity, calories and steps and can be connected to Android smartwatches and other apps. This is the latest gadget to be introduced by Google in the health and fitness segment.   The Google Fit Android app counts steps and can be plugged into wearables and other fitness...Read more

IT Management

Google-developing-heart-attack-and-cancer-detector

2014 01 Nov

Google is currently developing a wristband that would have the ability to carry out non-invasive blood tests. The company is working on technology that can combine disease-detecting nanoparticles which could enter a patient's blood stream via a swallowed pill, with a wrist-worn sensor. The concept is that the sensor would be able to identify changes...Read more

IT Management

Google-fit-wants-your-health-data

2014 17 Jun

When developers meet later this month at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, they can expect to hear more about the company’s plans to challenge Apple’s recently-released HealthKit framework with its new Google Fit. The health service will collect and combine data from electronic health devices and apps, positioning the company...Read more