Healthcare insurer Blue Shield of California has notified 4.7 million individuals of a potential data breach after unknowingly sharing patients' protected health information with Google since 2021.
"On February 11, 2025, Blue Shield discovered that, between April 2021 and January 2024, Google Analytics was configured in a way that allowed certain member data to be shared with Google's...
Google gave an update on how it is using AI to advance science and build products at its recent Check Up event.
In a blog post, Google's chief health officer, Dr. Karen DeSalvo, said that since the company launched AI Overviews last year, people are more satisfied with their search results and are asking longer, more complex questions.
AI Overviews appear in Google Search results to allow people...
Google has received FDA clearance for its loss of pulse detection feature available on Pixel Watch 3.
The loss of pulse detection technology checks for an individual's pulse. Once it detects signs of a loss of pulse, it activates infrared and red lights to search for additional pulse signals. A motion sensor then checks for signs of movement.
An AI algorithm then analyzes the pulse and movement...
Google announced it is partnering with the Institute of Women's Cancers, founded by France's cancer research and treatment center, Institut Curie, to study how AI tools can help address cancer, share science-based health information and support postdoctoral researchers with funding.
The partnership, which was announced at the France AI Action Summit, combines Institut Curie’s proficiency in...
Healthengine allows direct booking from Google
Primary care booking platform Healthengine has added a new booking pathway in partnership with Google.
The Reserve with Google feature allows patients to book appointments directly from a practice's Google Business profile upon search.
"This can help to boost online visibility, reduce drop-offs and increase appointment volumes," Healthengine said...
Digital health startup Drive Health, launched an AI health assistant in collaboration with Google Public Sector.
The aim of Nurse Avery is to serve as a secure, responsive and personalized healthcare assistant.
The application offers access to care plan details, medication instructions and answers to symptom-related questions, while facilitating communication with providers.
The AI assistant's...
Executives highlighted AI's transformative potential in healthcare when asked by MobiHealthNews how they see AI's place in the sector changing in 2025.
Some expect multimodal AI and advanced diagnostic imaging to make significant strides next year, while others showcased AI's promise in improving diagnostics, addressing provider burnout, automating tasks, streamlining drug development and...
MobiHealthNews reached out to executives from across the digital health landscape and questioned them about unexpected and impactful occurrences from the past year.
Leaders singled out the closing of retail clinics, challenges in the Medicare Advantage market, the FDA's concerns about off-label advertising, the wide variety of AI use cases and the plethora of uses for GLP-1s beyond weight...
MobiHealthNews asked executives from across the digital health industry – in places from Fortune 500 companies to emerging startups – to share their biggest takeaways from 2024. Their responses highlight a diverse range of perspectives and insights.
In part one of this two-part series on the biggest takeaways of the year, explore executives' thoughts on key trends, including the growing focus on...
Google has introduced Health AI Developer Foundations (HAI-DEF), a public resource for healthcare developers that provides open-weight models to help them build healthcare applications, initially focused on dermatology, radiology and pathology.
Open-weight AI models are a type of black box AI technology that allows developers to apply and fine-tune a model for specific tasks, allowing them to...
