Here are 10 of Google Health’s innovations as reported by The Motley Fool April 7:
- Google recently earned FDA approval for an EKG app that uses data from Google-owned Fitbit to detect atrial fibrillation.
- Google partnered with CVS MinuteClinic to help consumers book health appointments through a Google search.
- Google uses artificial intelligence to create Automated Retinal Disease Assessment, a program that can detect diabetic retinopathy.
- It is running a similar program called Derm Assist where it has trained an AI to detect skin issues such as signs of skin cancer.
- The Google Fit app uses the camera to detect the heart rate and respiratory rate of users.
- Google has also developed Google Tags, which patients can wear after certain osteopathic related procedures, that measure movement of the joints.
- YouTube, which is owned by Google, teamed up with the New England Journal of Medicine to provide public health and science communication videos from authoritative experts.
- Google’s Care studio helps bring patients’ most relevant medical information from EHRs to the forefront for physicians.
- Alongside the World Health Organization, Google is developing the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource, a standardized set of guidelines for healthcare apps in low and middle income countries.
- It has developed probes that work alongside cell phones that allow medical professionals to carry out ultrasound exams in under-resourced areas.
