Our team of clinicians, researchers, and engineers are all working together to create new AI and discover opportunities to increase the availability and accuracy of healthcare technologies globally, to realize long-term health technology potential.
We are building and testing AI models with the goal of helping alleviate the global shortages of physicians, as well as the low access to modern imaging and diagnostic tools in certain parts of the world. With improved tech, we hope to increase accessibility and help more patients receive timely and accurate diagnoses and care.
Sequencing genomes enables us to identify variants in a person’s DNA that indicate genetic disorders such as an elevated risk for breast cancer. DeepVariant is an open-source variant caller that uses a deep neural network to call genetic variants from next-generation DNA sequencing data.
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In this research in Nature, we demonstrated how artificial intelligence could accurately predict acute kidney injuries (AKI) in patients up to 48 hours earlier than it is currently diagnosed. Notoriously difficult to spot, AKI affects up to one in five hospitalized patients in the US and UK, and deterioration can happen quickly. Read the article
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Protecting Patients
In a paper published in npj Digital Medicine, we used deep learning models to make a broad set of predictions relevant to hospitalized patients using de-identified electronic health records, and showed how that model could be used to render an accurate prediction 24 hours after a patient was admitted to the hospital. Read the article
Research shows that 2% of hospitalized patients experience serious preventable medication-related incidents that can be life-threatening, cause permanent harm, or result in death. Published in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, our best-performing AI model was able to anticipate physician’s actual prescribing decisions 75% of the time, based on de-identified electronic health records and the doctor’s prescribing records. This is an early step towards testing the hypothesis that machine learning can support clinicians in ways that prevent mistakes and help to keep patients safe. Read the article
Learn more about our most recent developments from Google’s health-related research and initiatives.
Google researchers have been exploring ways technologies could help advance the fields of medicine and science, working with scientists, doctors, and others in the field. In this video, we share a few research projects that have big potential.