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Interested in how Google is thinking about quality, safety and effectiveness when it comes to AI in healthcare? Tune into a recording of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign’s Health Technology Innovation Policy Conference, where Bakul Patel, Senior Director, Global Digital Health Strategy & Regulatory, shared some of the principles we use to create and AI responsibly. Watch here: https://goo.gle/3X59HBs

This week, Google Health participated in the 77th World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva which focused on "All for Health, Health for All." This theme resonates with our health work at Google as we build products, services, and discoveries that work for everyone, everywhere. Throughout many discussions and meetings this week, Google’s Chief Health Officer, Dr. Karen DeSalvo, emphasized the need to ensure our technologies solve the right challenges and problems for consumers, our partners, and society at large. Our goal is for AI to be helpful and enable partners to deliver on their missions in health as well as advance the broader medical and scientific community. A key pillar in this effort is a multi-year collaboration agreement we signed with the World Health Organization last year. This builds on work we did together during the COVID-19 pandemic to connect people to trustworthy information during an unprecedented global health crisis. Some of the ways we have brought that agreement to life since then include: - Adding authoritative information in Knowledge Panels – from the common cold to colon cancer – across more than 80 countries, such as Botswana, Pakistan, and the Philippines. - Building together to enable interoperable data standards to help accelerate the transition towards person-centered care – especially in low-resource settings. - Adopting a set of WHO principles to guide our product development work as we build age-appropriate mental health experiences for teens on YouTube. At a small reception hosted by Dr. Karen DeSalvo, ministers of health from around the world alongside attendees and officials from the WHO joined us to talk about how we can continue to work together to deliver on this mission of All for Health, Health for All. We look forward to what’s to come.

In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, Child Mind Institute is highlighting world-class athletes on YouTube as they share personal stories about their own mental health challenges, plus tips on how to combine fitness with mental health techniques. One crucial message – asking for support when you need it is a key part of mental health fitness! Tune in and share here: https://goo.gle/453vxHG

AI can enable novel healthcare solutions. Drawing from diverse datasets, high-quality labels, and state-of-the-art deep learning techniques, we’re researching robust new AI-enabled imaging tools focused on expanding access and assisting clinicians in diagnosing disease. Learn more: https://goo.gle/3KAJCmx

When it comes to many scientific advancements, expectations do not always align with reality. The same can absolutely be said for medical AI research. We’re committed to learning as much as possible about all the ways medical AI will impact global health. Through compiling data from a worldwide retinal disease screening program, a team of Google Health researchers assembled these five myths about medical AI – and the facts that make up the reality of the future of AI in global health. 👉 https://goo.gle/4az62yM

AI is poised to transform healthcare around the world 🌏

✨ Introducing Med-Gemini, our new family of AI research models specialized for medicine! ✨ Med-Gemini models are tuned from Gemini, building on its advanced reasoning, multimodal, and long-context capabilities to unlock new possibilities for medicine. Our research includes: - State-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks, outperforming other models. This includes an impressive 91.1% accuracy on the MedQA benchmark. - Ability to generate reports for 2D images as well as, for the first time, generate reports for complex 3D datasets like 3D brain CTs. - Enhanced ability to analyze medical images, videos, genomics, health records, and more. - Advanced reasoning and efficient use of web search for accurate medical answers. - Long-context abilities to summarize health records and analyze research papers. - The first large medical model to predict health outcomes from genomic data converted to polygenic risk scores. Further research is needed, but we’re excited by the potential of this research to support healthcare organizations, clinicians, and patient workflows. Learn more in our blog: https://goo.gle/4bkmyEa

Google is proud to support efforts by the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) to create Core Measures of Sleep – a consistent set of core digital measures and supporting resources to improve efficiencies and make digital clinical measures more effective. Learn more: https://goo.gle/4bdGKrm

Nurses at HCA Healthcare - in partnership with Google Cloud and other HCA Healthcare teams - are designing patient handoff solutions that integrate nursing expertise to improve patient safety and quality care while saving time for busy nurses. “Our nurses are driving this innovative change, directing and identifying the information that is critical in a patient's medical record, to generate an output that our nurses are able to use to improve patient safety and quality care while saving time,” says Kyle (KC) Brashear, MSN, RN, NE-BC, Director, Clinical Design and Operations, Care Transformation and Innovation at HCA Healthcare. In appreciation of International Nurses Day, learn more about these efforts to improve outcomes and efficiencies for nurses and patients alike: https://goo.gle/3QErICs

In Science Magazine, teams at Google Research and Harvard University have published the first-ever synaptic-resolution connectome of the human brain! 🧠 The connectome is a 3D visualization of how cells in a section of brain tissue are connected to others. This achievement, made possible by the fusion of scientific imaging and Google's advanced AI algorithms, reveals surprising new insights into the brain's intricate wiring. It paves the way for new discoveries about how our brains function, transforming our understanding of neurological conditions and the mind itself. The mapping – from a portion of the human brain half the size of a grain of rice – is the latest advance in understanding the brain structure of increasingly complex organisms. Learn more: https://goo.gle/4anIIUU #GoogleResearch