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From empowering consumers with credible health information, to helping clinicians and enterprises increase access to care, improve care quality, and bring joy back to medicine. Google's Chief Health Officer, Dr. Karen DeSalvo, shared ways we're working to advance AI-driven progress in healthcare with Eric Larsen of Advisory Board. Listen Now: https://goo.gle/4cdtl2s

We're deeply encouraged by the advances we continue to see in generative AI's ability to investigate medical imagery models and datasets. Way to go, Google Research! https://lnkd.in/gm-T9V5F

📢 New research! Our latest study demonstrates the potential of Fitbit-based interventions to improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare costs for insufficiently active adults. 🔍 What we did: We developed a simulation model to evaluate the impact of a Fitbit-based physical activity intervention on physical activity levels, chronic disease incidence, and healthcare costs over 15 years. 📊 Key findings: Our analysis reveals that Fitbit interventions could lead to lower costs and increased quality-adjusted life years compared to usual care, as well as substantial cost savings. This is primarily due to the benefits of greater physical activity, leading to reduced short-term healthcare costs and lower incidence of chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension. 💡 Why it matters: These findings highlight the potential of wearable technology to not only improve individual health but also generate substantial cost savings for healthcare payers. Want to learn more? Check out our full manuscript on medRxiv for a detailed look at our methods and results: https://goo.gle/3VgzWCo Join the conversation! What are your thoughts on the role and promise of wearable technology in healthcare? Share your insights below. 👇

Three out of four people start their journey to find health information on the internet. And in moments of crisis, access to high-quality information is paramount. That's why Google Search recently expanded information about mental health hotlines to people in dozens of countries and languages, helping more people connect to local resources. Learn more: https://goo.gle/4aL4zFO

From across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, these startups are using AI to improve health and advance medical research as part of the Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for Health program. The three-month program kicked off last week in Paris with an in-person summit connecting founders to industry experts and over the next ten weeks, participants will join virtual workshops on best practices for AI and leadership development, responsible innovation, product design and customer acquisition, as well as one-on-one mentorship sessions and technical project support. Learn more: https://goo.gle/3x3Ztqj

Public health is poised for a transformative shift into a new era of public health practice that leverages AI advancements to improve communication, generate novel insights, and organizational gaps. In Health Affairs, the Google team outlines a new framework for the application of gen AI to meet the public health needs of the 21st century. Learn more: https://goo.gle/456lFwN

Every plant, animal and human cell holds billions of molecular machines made up of proteins, DNA and other molecules. 🧬 No single piece works on its own, and only by seeing how they interact together, across millions of types of combinations, can we start to truly understand life’s processes. Enter AlphaFold 3. This revolutionary model can predict the structure and interactions of all life’s molecules with unprecedented accuracy, transforming our understanding of the biological world and drug discovery, as scientists can access the majority of its capabilities for free through our newly launched AlphaFold Server, an easy-to-use research tool. Explore what’s possible: https://goo.gle/4e3Nz0r

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.