Frequently asked questions

Google for Health is committed to helping billions of people be healthier through products, research, and services that connect and bring meaning to health information. Google for Health is focused on developing technology solutions to enable care teams to deliver better, faster, and more connected care. We’re working on products and features to empower people to be healthier with the information, assistance, and connections they need to act on their health. And Google for Health is exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to assist in diagnosing cancer, predicting patient outcomes, preventing blindness, and much more. Our work complements Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Our teams are applying our expertise with products, research, and solutions in four major areas: :

• For consumers with high-quality information and tools to help people manage their health and wellbeing, in products such as Search, Maps, YouTube, Fitbit and Nest.
• For caregivers with solutions to transform care delivery, in products such as ​​Google Cloud’s Healthcare Data Engine.
• For caregivers through research to catalyze the use of artificial intelligence for the screening and diagnosis of disease, with explorations in mammography, dermatology, and tuberculosis screening.
• For healthy communities with data and insights for the public health community so they can better understand the environment in which people live, work and play, with tools like Open Health Stack, Heat Resilience tool, and Google.Org AdGrants.

Google for Health is a company-wide effort to help billions of people be healthier through products, research, and services that connect and bring meaning to health information. While Google for Health is designed to help both individuals and health providers, there is no "Google Healthcare" division or platform within Google today.

When you use Google’s products and services, you trust us with your data. It’s our responsibility to keep your data private and secure. And at Google for Health, we are guided by core privacy and security principles as we build new products and services. Visit the Safety Center to learn more.

No, it does not provide a medical diagnosis.

Google for Health is working to create new AI and discover opportunities to increase the availability and accuracy of health technologies globally, to realize long-term health technology potential. We are doing this through the screening and diagnosis of disease, with explorations in mammography, dermatology, and tuberculosis screening, and more.

Deepmind is committed to solving intelligence, to advance science and benefit humanity. DeepMind was acquired by Google in 2014.

Fitbit is dedicated to helping people lead healthier, more active lives. Fitbit was acquired by Google in 2021.

The latest news on Google for Health can be found on The Keyword, the Google blog.