July 5, 2022 — Google announced that it would work to delete location history data for people who visit abortion sites and other medical establishments. Legal experts have voiced concerns about electronic data since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and reversed its original opinion that women have a constitutional right to abortion. For weeks, Google and other tech companies haven’t answered questions about data storage practices and whether they will comply with potential requests… Source link
Read More »To address healthcare worker shortage, UMN collaborates with Google and Mayo Clinic – The Minnesota Daily
The NXT GEN MED program will launch on the Rochester campus in Summer 2022. The University of Minnesota recently announced that a new health sciences degree program, designed to address the national shortage of healthcare workers, will be launching on the Rochester campus in summer 2022. In a collaborative project, the NXT GEN MED program will use new technology from Google to teach students in a hybrid format and connect them with working healthcare professionals from the Mayo Clinic, a… Source link
Read More »Google to open first Minnesota office in Rochester, part of Mayo Clinic partnership – Twin Cities
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Internet giant Google plans to open its first Minnesota office in downtown Rochester to serve as a hub for its partnership with Mayo Clinic. The announcement was made Thursday by Joe Miles, Google Cloud’s head of Healthcare and Life Sciences, that the company will move into the Collider Coworking space on the second floor of the Conley-Maass-Downs building. In the announcement, Miles stated that the new office “will give us a physical home in Minnesota, as well as… Source link
Read More »Google and Mayo Clinic to use AI to better target radiation therapy
In the first project of their sweeping data partnership, Google and the Mayo Clinic will build an artificial intelligence tool to guide the targeting of radiation therapy in cancer patients, the organizations said Wednesday. The tool will draw contours around tumors in the head and neck, dividing them from healthy tissue, and help to determine radiation dosage and develop treatment plans for patients. Radiation therapy is a rapidly advancing area of AI innovation, as systems for automating… Source link
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