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HEALTH OPTIMIZATION

Driving health innovation for everyone, everywhere

We believe everyone, everywhere deserves the opportunity to be healthier on their own terms, and we're committed to leveraging data-driven, human-centered solutions and novel scientific methods to achieve this. Our aim is to accelerate innovation through technology and collaboration, ensuring we help everyone reach their full health potential.

Driving health innovation for everyone, everywhere

Health for everyone, everywhere, in action across Google

Google aims to improve the health of billions, focusing on everyone, everywhere. In this AI moment, we can impact real-world challenges like improving health literacy, researching to better detect diseases, and improving global performance of generative AI models for health.

Here are a few examples of how Google is helping to advance health.
Health for everyone

Health for everyone

We build solutions that consider the many factors and variations influencing human health, ensuring that promising advances deliver high-quality results across populations and contexts.

  • Representations of human variation

    In collaboration with researchers and scientists across the globe, Google Research engineers contributed to the Human Pangenome Reference Project, revolutionizing how we understand human genetic variation. By contributing cutting-edge AI technology like DeepVariant and DeepConsensus to the Human Pangenome Reference Project, they've achieved an unprecedented 99.999% accuracy in representing the vast spectrum of human genomes. This breakthrough will pave the way for more accurate genetic testing and treatments, ensuring everyone can be represented in the promise of personalized medicine.

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  • Search for Skin Conditions with Lens

    Lens can help you search for skin conditions that are visually similar to what you see on your skin. This helps those who have trouble describing symptoms or face access barriers by making it easier to understand skin conditions and improving access to information, especially for communities with limited access to skin information.

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Health everywhere

Health everywhere

By addressing local needs and improving health outcomes in communities across the globe, we are working to create a world where health care workers have the tools they need and everyone has the opportunity to live a healthy life.

  • Open Health Stack

    We are tackling global health by empowering frontline health workers in low resource countries with powerful digital tools. By fostering open-source innovation, demonstrating impactful solutions, and collaborating with the global health community, this opportunity can ensure everyone has a chance at a healthier life.

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  • AfriMed-QA

    AfriMed-QA is a new approach to AI in health. By creating a unique dataset of 25,000 Africa-focused question-answer pairs, we aim to help researchers and health professionals to rigorously evaluate and understand the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) within the landscape of African health. This initiative empowers African researchers and health professionals to harness the full potential of LLMs, ensuring they are used effectively and responsibly to address local needs and improve health outcomes.

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Health on your own terms

Health on your own terms

We are enabling personalized health journeys by developing tools and resources that empower individuals to address their unique health needs on their own terms, delivering relevant information and support at the right time.

  • Simplify

    Simplify is a feature in the Google app on iOS that uses AI to make complicated text on the web easier to understand without leaving a web page. This feature can help make information more accessible and easier to understand, including navigating health information.

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  • Skin Condition Image Network (SCIN)

    SCIN provides a crowd - sourced collection of over 10,000 dermatology images. This valuable resource, created in collaboration with Stanford Medicine, empowers individuals to participate in research and empowers health professionals with the knowledge to accurately identify skin conditions across a wide range of skin tones.

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