Google Research at The Check Up: from healthcare innovation to real-world care settings

For a decade, we’ve been advancing fundamental computer science research to address real-world healthcare challenges, in pursuit of scientific and clinical discovery. While the pace of AI research today is staggering, our sense of responsibility remains steadfast. We uphold the highest standards of accuracy and collaborate closely with healthcare providers, scientists, hospitals, public health officials, and academics around the world to ensure that our innovations are safe and helpful.

For us, the future of AI in healthcare means high-quality care for everyone. Here’s an overview of our latest breakthroughs highlighted at today’s event.

AI towards personalized healthcare

AI is allowing clinicians to assess patients holistically and go deeper into truly personalized care. In collaboration with Fitbit, we conducted a study across the US to identify what the next generation of preventative care could look like with AI. We found that a Personal Health Agent (PHA) that emulates a collaborative health team supports long-term health more effectively than single-task apps that only track steps or calories. PHA acts as an integrated team, composed of a data scientist, a domain expert and a health coach, offering unified intelligence and ongoing support. We also found that by leveraging large multimodal models, we can turn everyday data from wearables into personalized insights that provide guidance for users about their sleep, health and fitness.

AI as a collaborator for clinicians

AI has the potential to improve the standard of care and enable clinicians to spend more time with their patients.

AI as a building block for the healthcare developer ecosystem

We’re taking steps to empower the global community to scale social innovation. Our Health AI Developer Foundations (HAI-DEF) offers free open-weight models and open-source companion tools to help developers build AI-enabled, next generation healthcare applications.