Tech giant Google has just launched a series of new and exciting features related to healthcare cases.
The company shared how the latest offerings entail improved replies in Google Search for questions linked to the health sector using AI. Users can soon see a knowledge panel featuring answers on thousands of health categories.
At the same time, the search giant is adding more support for questions linked to healthcare in various languages such as Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Currently, the search feature already provides replies for health issues like the flu but it hopes to expand that further to include more relevant information.
The company is also currently debuting another search feature dubbed ‘What People Suggest’ on smartphones in America. This is used to highlight material from users who can incorporate their shared experiences linked to health.
For example, this will entail common exercises for those suffering from arthritis. The feature dubbed What People Suggest will combine sports from different forums around the globe via AI.
The latest offering is designed on the company’s personal health stories endeavor which is seen on YouTube. It’s clearly aimed at making sure people don’t leave the Search bar and hop on to other platforms offering health advice like Reddit.
While people also hop on to search to find the most accurate medical advice from experts, they love to hear others’ experiences in case they’ve been through something similar. With the help of AI, people can organize various perspectives from unique online chats and transform them into easily comprehensible themes. This gives them the chance to grasp things quickly and determine what the next person is saying.
Google mentioned on Tuesday how they’re also sharing a new medical record API around the world for the Health Connect app for different Android devices. This will assist in collecting information from various medical providers and enable users to witness the data through unique apps. It’s also done to make it similar to accessing the data in places like a smartphone as per the company.
The APIs will enable apps to read as well as write medical record data similar to vaccines, drugs, and allergies, as well as test results in the standard format. The newest edition is getting love for supporting more than 50 kinds of data types. Various activities are included here like sleep, vitals, nutrition, and now medical records. So users get the chance to link common health information with data found at the doctor’s office for instance.
In other kinds of product announcements linked to health, Google shared more data on how the feature loss of pulse detection for its smartwatch has gotten clearance from the US FDA. this means it’s set for launch by the end of this month for those in America.
With the feature, users get the chance to detect any loss of pulse such as during a health emergency like respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. The same is the case during poisoning cases or those linked to overdose. It also gives rise to a prompt to emergency services if that patient is unresponsive.
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The company shared how the latest offerings entail improved replies in Google Search for questions linked to the health sector using AI. Users can soon see a knowledge panel featuring answers on thousands of health categories.
At the same time, the search giant is adding more support for questions linked to healthcare in various languages such as Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Currently, the search feature already provides replies for health issues like the flu but it hopes to expand that further to include more relevant information.
The company is also currently debuting another search feature dubbed ‘What People Suggest’ on smartphones in America. This is used to highlight material from users who can incorporate their shared experiences linked to health.
For example, this will entail common exercises for those suffering from arthritis. The feature dubbed What People Suggest will combine sports from different forums around the globe via AI.
The latest offering is designed on the company’s personal health stories endeavor which is seen on YouTube. It’s clearly aimed at making sure people don’t leave the Search bar and hop on to other platforms offering health advice like Reddit.
While people also hop on to search to find the most accurate medical advice from experts, they love to hear others’ experiences in case they’ve been through something similar. With the help of AI, people can organize various perspectives from unique online chats and transform them into easily comprehensible themes. This gives them the chance to grasp things quickly and determine what the next person is saying.
Google mentioned on Tuesday how they’re also sharing a new medical record API around the world for the Health Connect app for different Android devices. This will assist in collecting information from various medical providers and enable users to witness the data through unique apps. It’s also done to make it similar to accessing the data in places like a smartphone as per the company.
The APIs will enable apps to read as well as write medical record data similar to vaccines, drugs, and allergies, as well as test results in the standard format. The newest edition is getting love for supporting more than 50 kinds of data types. Various activities are included here like sleep, vitals, nutrition, and now medical records. So users get the chance to link common health information with data found at the doctor’s office for instance.
In other kinds of product announcements linked to health, Google shared more data on how the feature loss of pulse detection for its smartwatch has gotten clearance from the US FDA. this means it’s set for launch by the end of this month for those in America.
With the feature, users get the chance to detect any loss of pulse such as during a health emergency like respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. The same is the case during poisoning cases or those linked to overdose. It also gives rise to a prompt to emergency services if that patient is unresponsive.
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