We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the MedGemma Impact Challenge, launched in collaboration with Kaggle. More than 850 participating teams built on our open-weight models models in an effort to tackle a range of healthcare challenges. Meet the winners: 🏆 1st Place: EpiCast – designed for detecting disease outbreaks in West Africa. 🥈 2nd Place: Sunny – designed for privacy-first skin cancer screening. 🥉 3rd Place: FieldScreen AI – designed for on-device tuberculosis screening. 🏅 4th Place: Tracer – designed for the prevention of medical errors. ✨Special technology winners: ClinicDx, UniRad3s, BridgeDx, CaseTwin, BigTB6. ✨Honorable mentions: Dual Path ICU, Sentinel, Enso Atlas, CAP CDSS. Congratulations to all the visionaries! Learn more about the winning innovations: https://goo.gle/47oQG1l
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Google for Health is committed to helping everyone live more life every day through products and services that connect and bring meaning to health information. We’re 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 we’re exploring the use of artificial intelligence 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
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Health-related videos on YouTube have now crossed 1 trillion views globally. Nearly half of the world’s healthcare workers already turn to YouTube for information. At #TheCheckUp, Dr. Garth Graham, Global Head of YouTube Health, shared how we’re using AI tools to transform passive watching into active learning, helping improve health literacy for everyone, everywhere. On eligible health videos, the “Ask” button lets viewers turn watching into an interactive conversation with an AI tool based on the video’s content. We’re also partnering with health organizations worldwide to bring conversational AI to more learners. • In India, we’re partnering with the College of Nursing at the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to bring professional nursing courses to YouTube with conversational AI to support just-in-time learning for students and practicing nurses. • We’re also working with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to use Conversational AI tools to augment and scale just-in-time learning for first responders. From students, to nurses, to first responders, we are one step closer to meeting every learner where they are. Watch The Check Up keynote here: https://lnkd.in/gRhaAN64
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At #TheCheckUp, CVS Health shared a first look at Health100, a new AI-native consumer engagement platform developed using Google Cloud technology. Powered by Gemini multimodal AI and Cloud Healthcare APIs, Health100 is designed to give consumers an always-on personal health care partner that enables consumers to own their health care records and decisions, gives them expanded access to better care, saves them time and money, and provides proactive and real-time support to stay on track to better health. Health100 is designed to be a fully integrated and omni-channel healthcare engagement platform for consumers regardless of which pharmacy, insurance or drug benefits provider, or doctor they use. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gK2KTc5J
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At The Check Up, Yossi Matias shared highlights from Google Research’s latest work in health — from AMIE and Google Earth AI in healthcare to new progress in bringing research into real-world impact. Read the highlights ⬇️
The Check Up event this week, we shared how we’re entering a new era of innovation in scientific and clinical research for health. AI can make a big difference in helping billions of people live longer, healthier lives. From our research on multi-agent systems to conversational AI to open weight models, the potential of AI in healthcare is tremendous. Key highlights of progress in research and its real-world impact: ✨ Empower the global community We offer a suite of open-weight medical models as a robust starting point for health developers everywhere. That includes MedGemma, which has been downloaded 3 million times, enabling thousands of impactful use cases globally. ✨ AI as a Decoder for Health Building on our seminal 2016 research paper, our diabetic retinopathy model was now used in over 1 million screenings across India, Thailand, and Australia through our strategic partners. We are also leveraging LLMs through our Personal Health Agent (PHA) research exploring how multimodal models could analyze sleep patterns and activity metrics from wearables to provide personalized coaching and insights. ✨ AI as a Collaborator for Clinicians New research published in Nature Cancer demonstrates how our AI system identified 25% of "interval" breast cancers previously missed by traditional screenings, and is capable of reducing 40% of radiologist workloads. Furthermore, our conversational AI system, AMIE, is moving into prospective, real-world validation with a first-of-its-kind nationwide study alongside Included Health. ✨ AI as a Navigator for Public Health We are harnessing Google Earth AI, a collection of geospatial models and datasets for planetary intelligence. Earth AI can shift public health from reactive response to proactive, to help predict outbreaks, identify local vulnerabilities, and deliver proactive care, where it is needed most. Earth AI is already in use by partners. ✨ AI as an Accelerator for Scientific Discovery Our research on the Co-Scientist multi-agent system along with Gemini Deep Think, demonstrate how valuable AI collaborators can be for scientists. As we advance our breakthrough research, we continue to adhere to the highest standards of scientific rigor, and to bring our research from the lab to clinical settings responsibly, working closely with patients, medical professionals, public officials, researchers and scientists. I am incredibly excited about the opportunities to realize the benefits of AI to help everyone around the world enjoy longer, healthier lives. Watch the keynote from the event: https://lnkd.in/gmSdxkJv More on Google Research updates in the blog: goo.gle/4lF8fQI
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This week, we announced a partnership with DocMorris, one of Europe’s leading online pharmacies, to help create a more personal digital health experience. DocMorris will leverage Google AI and infrastructure, coupled with their deep healthcare and pharmaceutical expertise, to make everyday health needs simpler and more accessible, including: • A personal AI companion that leverages Gemini models, Health Connect, and other Google products to support people from symptom onset through e-prescription redemption. • A more intuitive online pharmacy experience, where conversational AI will help personalize online pharmacy shopping for DocMorris’ 11 million active customers. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e24UuEJQ
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At #TheCheckUp, we announced plans for AI initiatives aimed at making healthcare more accessible, starting with a focus on the American heartland. As a first step, we’re exploring work with leaders in Arkansas, including the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine and the Heartland Whole Health Institute, to support clinician education, care delivery, and health research in rural areas. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g6ZSN2zN
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Announced yesterday at #TheCheckUp: three updates coming to Fitbit’s Personal Health Coach in Public Preview. 1️⃣ We’ve further improved sleep stage accuracy by 15% and optimized our AI algorithm to better track interruptions and restlessness, while providing improved nap support. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gm68nyqS Read our white paper for an in-depth look at the data behind the improvements: https://lnkd.in/gvi27UVE 2️⃣ This week, our groundbreaking study on predicting insulin resistance using wearable data was published in Nature. This foundational work, along with our ongoing Fitbit hypertension study, will allow the coach to use wearable data to better understand and inform cardiometabolic health. https://lnkd.in/ggKFEcxb 3️⃣ You’ll soon be able to securely link your medical records, including lab results and medications, directly to the Fitbit app to get more personalized wellness guidance from your coach. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gE3Khy9q
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We just wrapped #TheCheckUp where we shared how Google is using AI to improve health for everyone. Here are a few of the updates we shared: • Investments in education: Google.org is committing $10 million to organizations working together to reimagine clinician education for the AI era, aiming to strengthen training and support high-quality, person-centered care. • Rural health: We’re exploring initiatives with the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine and the Heartland Whole Health Institute to support clinician education, care delivery, and health research in rural areas. • Fitbit’s Personal Health Coach: We’re adding medical records, advanced sleep science and metabolic research to give you more tools on the path to live a longer, healthier life https://lnkd.in/gE3Khy9q . • Earth AI for public health: By combining local health data with advanced geospatial models, Google Earth AI is helping partners predict outbreaks, identify vulnerabilities, and deliver proactive care where it’s needed most — including a new initiative supporting remote communities in Australia. https://lnkd.in/gUZUYZ2f • YouTube: Health-related videos on YouTube have surpassed 1 trillion views globally, and new AI tools will help turn watching into an interactive learning experience. Explore all of the announcements from this year’s event: https://lnkd.in/g6ZSN2zN #TheCheckUp
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The Check Up starts now. Stream the event live on YouTube and see how Google is working to improve health outcomes for everyone, everywhere. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/grq7yhgU
The Check Up with Google 2026
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Don’t miss #TheCheckUp 2026 on March 17 @ 11 am ET, where we’ll share Google’s latest advancements in Health and AI. Hear from: ∙ Dr. Michael Howell, MD MPH Chief Health Officer ∙ Hema Budaraju, VP, Product Management, Google Search ∙ Joëlle Barral, Senior Director of Research & Engineering, Google DeepMind ∙ rishi chandra, VP, Health and Home ∙ Dr. Garth Graham, Global Head of YouTube Health ∙ Yossi Matias, VP & Head of Google Research And others. Register to add the Livestream link to your calendar ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gnE4uVwc