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What is Google for Health?

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 deploying the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its own products, through research and in enterprise environments to assist in broad areas of work including diagnosing disease, predicting patient outcomes, accelerating science, bringing personal health insights to individuals, and much more. Our work complements Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

What are Google for Health products?

We build health use cases into all our products. Our teams are applying our expertise with products, research, and solutions in five 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 life sciences organizations by providing AI-powered tools and platforms to accelerate research, drug discovery, and clinical development.
  • 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.

Is there a Google healthcare division?

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.

Does Google collect my health information?

When you use Google products and services, you control your data. We don't use your health data for ads targeting. Security and privacy are primary design criteria for all of our products. Visit the Safety Center to learn more.

Does Google for Health diagnose skin conditions?

No, it does not provide a medical diagnosis.

What are examples of Google’s health and medical research?

Our cutting edge AI technologies and research aim to safely bring the best of Google to the world of health. We want to pioneer solutions and discoveries to revolutionize health science, experiences and services alongside demonstrating the art of the possible.

For instance, AI systems like AlphaFold are accelerating research on diseases like tuberculosis and malaria. We’ve provided access to our open-weight models, such as MedGemma and TxGemma, to accelerate the pace of innovation and unlock new solutions to pressing health challenges. And we’re imagining ways that AI systems could be useful conversational partners in clinical settings, with Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE).

Is Fitbit part of Google for Health?

Fitbit is dedicated to helping people lead healthier, more active lives. Fitbit was acquired by Google in 2021 and is one of the ways Google brings our technology to the world of health.

Where can I find the latest Google for Health news?

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