Google Unveils AI-powered Search Tool for Doctors

Google Cloud joins the race in healthcare AI with the launch of Vertex AI Search for Healthcare, a tool designed to streamline workflows for doctors. This announcement comes during the HIMSS conference, a major healthcare IT event.

Vertex AI Search allows doctors to search across various sources of patient data, including notes, scanned documents, and more. It goes beyond search functionality by answering doctors’ questions directly, like those related to a patient’s medical history.

This technology integrates with existing Google Cloud healthcare tools, including Health Data Engine, which improves data compatibility, and MedLM, a suite of AI models trained on a vast dataset of healthcare information.
Google highlights Vertex AI Search for Healthcare’s ability to understand medical terminology and generate transparent results. Answers include citations of the data used, aiming to reduce the risk of inaccurate information.

While hospitals increasingly adopt AI tools, concerns linger around ethical implications – potential errors, bias amplification, and a lack of federal regulations. President Biden called for responsible AI use in healthcare last year, but concrete regulations are still under development.

Google emphasizes Vertex AI Search for Healthcare’s unique features. Aashima Gupta, Google Cloud’s healthcare director, highlights its integration with MedLM, which Google considers a market differentiator. MedLM itself offers various functionalities, including a new early access feature for chest X-ray classification and patient condition timelines. Google plans to expand MedLM with more models, including one based on Gemini, their large language model competitor to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT.

However, Google’s foray into AI for image generation recently faced challenges. Last month, historically inaccurate image generation by Gemini caused a stock price dip, prompting Google to pause the feature.

Reference

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/google-artificial-intelligence-healthcare-vertex-search-launch/709823/

 

 


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