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Google announced last Tuesday that it developed a new artificial intelligence tool to help people identify skin conditions. Like any other symptom-checking tool, it’ll face questions over how accurately it can perform that task. But experts say it should also be scrutinized for how it influences people’s behavior: does it make them more likely to go to the doctor? Less likely? These types of symptom-checking tools — which usually clarify that they can’t diagnose health conditions… Source link

By Jessica Kent May 20, 2021 – Google has announced a dermatology tool powered by artificial intelligence that will help users understand issues with their skin, hair, and nails. The tool uses many of the same techniques that detect diabetic eye disease or lung cancer in CT scans to help consumers identify dermatologic issues using their phone’s camera. “Each year we see almost ten billion Google Searches related to skin, nail and hair issues. Two billion people worldwide suffer… Source link

It has taken three years to develop, and has been trained on a dataset of 65,000 images of diagnosed conditions, as well as millions of images showing marks people were concerned about, and thousands of pictures of healthy skin, in all shades and tones. Source link

Google is taking one of the most significant steps yet by a big tech company into healthcare, launching an AI-powered tool that will assist consumers in self-diagnosing hundreds of skin conditions. Derm Assist is the first of its kind and will launch in Europe this year before being aimed at the nearly 2bn people globally suffering from skin conditions ranging from acne to melanoma. Users will have to sign into their Google accounts, upload images of their medical condition… Source link

A replacement for Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool, called the Schema Markup Validator, is now available to use in an open beta. Launched as a subdomain on the official Schema.org website, the new tool is not an exact 1:1 copy of Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool, but it is functionally similar. Google shuttered the original tool in July 2020, claiming all its features were migrated to the Rich Results Rest and no longer needed to exist as a standalone offering. That wasn’t 100%… Source link

Google Cloud is working on a still-unnamed product — with an announcement expected this quarter — involving the sharing of data and insights across user communities in a secure and privacy-safe way. “It’s good to have powerful tools, but you also need easy access to data, because without data, those tools are not really that effective,” Debanjan Saha, vice president and general manager of data analytics at Google Cloud told CRN. “Once you have data and tools, you want to address… Source link

DETROIT – The philanthropic arm of tech company Google will help the city of Detroit to build a search tool that helps people find affordable housing. Officials announced Monday that the city of Detroit has been chosen to participate in Google.org’s Fellowship Program, through which Google employees will support the city as it works on the affordable housing locator tool free of charge. The goal of the tool is to simplify searching and applying for affordable housing in Detroit by listing… Source link

By Jessica Davis April 30, 2021 – Two individuals who used California’s state public health COVID-19 contact tracing app have filed a lawsuit against its developer, Google, claiming the tool exposes user data and violated their privacy, among other allegations. The Google-Apple Exposure Notification (GAEN) System was developed by the tech giants to support governments and public health agencies control the… Source link

Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer of cloud services at Google LLC, speaks during the Google Cloud Next ’19 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The conference brings together industry experts to discuss the future of cloud computing. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google maintains a piece of software, Cloudtop, that employees use to access internal programs. It’s the sort of thing that might be helpful for companies that want to keep their… Source link

Jackie Drees – Monday, April 12th, 2021 Print  | Email Google is in the early stages of a new project that aims to explore and develop a new consumer-facing health records tool for Android users, according to an April 9 STAT report.  Seven things to know:  1. Google launched a user feedback program that aims to assess how patients want to access and share their EHR data. The project could support the development of a medical records tool similar to Apple’s… Source link