Google’s Search and Maps tools can now show more information in healthcare providers’ business profiles.
If a user searches “Doctor near me” in the U.S., provider profiles can display types of insurance accepted and language assistance offered in their office.
WHY IT MATTERS
Many patients face an uphill battle when searching for accurate provider information. An analysis by the Centers for...
Alphabet’s life science subsidiary Verily is working to detach itself from Google’s technology and possibly move outside its parent company, according to reporting by Insider.
The plan, internally called Flywheel, launched early this year to remove Verily’s products from Google’s computing infrastructure, as in moving the business unit from Google’s internal cloud service to a public version...
Accessibility is one of the main themes in Google’s latest Android features.
Individuals with speech and motor impairments will now be able to navigate their smartphones through self-selected facial gestures and eye movements, thanks to a new feature called Camera Switches.
When using this feature, the phone’s front-facing camera becomes a switch. Users are able to choose a certain movement to...
Google is shutting down its clinician support app Streams. TechCrunch reported the shutdown days after the news broke that Google is dismantling its health division.
The app allowed clinicians easier access patient info like vital signs, blood tests and imaging results. Streams had been used in the U.K.’s National Health Service, but TechCrunch reported nearly all NHS Trusts had stopped using the...
Google is changing its healthcare strategy and dismantling its health division, according to an Insider report.
In an internal memo obtained by Insider, the initiatives once housed in the division will now be under more general umbrellas. For example, Google’s AI healthcare team will now report to the president of search and AI, and Dr. Karen DeSalvo, Google’s CMO, as well as the division’s...
Before COVID-19, it would have been easy to imagine that producing and distributing an effective vaccine would have been the biggest challenge of fighting a global pandemic. But as it’s turned out, some of the biggest challenges of the COVID-19 virus have been public health challenges – getting people to behave in ways that reduce the spread of disease and getting them to take the vaccine in...
Google is looking to help folks socially distance themselves with a Maps feature that lets users check how crowded public transit is in their area.
The tool uses artificial intelligence, historical locations trends and information provided by crowdsourcing from Google Map users to predict how busy public transit will be. The crowdedness predictions will be available to more than 10,000 transit...
Google rolled out support for a digital COVID-19 vaccine certificate card for the Pay app on Android devices, which can now store and display COVID-19 test and vaccination information.
The updated Passes API is available for government and healthcare providers or authorized third parties in the U.S. It gives developers the ability to create digital COVID-19 vaccine and test cards.
When a user...
Google is combating food insecurity with the launch of its new website called Find Food Support, which includes a Google Map locator tool and destigmatizing online resources.
The tech giant collaborated with No Kid Hungry, FoodFinder and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pinpoint 90,000 locations with free food support across the country and has plans to add even more.
Making up the bulk of...
Google is reportedly shaking things up in its health division. The company is moving more than 130 of its roughly 700 Google Health employees to Search and its new Fitbit group, according to an Insider report.
Insider's sources say that none of the teams left at Google Health will focus on consumer tech. This news comes roughly six months after Google officially purchased Fitbit for roughly $2.1...
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