20 Facts About Google Health

Google Health is a branch of Google started in 2006, originally designed as an to attempt to create a repository of health records and data in order to connect doctors, hospitals and pharmacies directly.

Google Health was restarted in 2018 as a new division, but was later reorganized back into Google in 2021.

Google Health appeared to focus on health-related artificial intelligence research, clinical tools, and partnerships for other healthcare tools and services.

Once entered, Google Health used the information to provide the user with a merged health record, information on conditions, and possible interactions between drugs, conditions, and allergies.

Google Health's API was based on a subset of the Continuity of Care Record.

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Original Google Health was under development from mid-2006, under ex-chief health strategist Dr Roni Zeiger.

The reason Google Health gave for abandoning the project was the lack of widespread adoption.

At the 2019 HLTH health care conference, Feinberg announced Google Health is working on improvements with the search functions in electronic health records and to improve health-related search results across their platforms.

Google Health reportedly struck up deals to work with large health systems such as Ascension and Stanford Medicine, but talks with other major health companies and organizations including CVS Health and the Gates Foundation had “fallen apart along the way”.

In November 2019, Google announced plans to acquire Fitbit, with the company adding that “Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads.

Google Health's described YouTube, Maps, Google Assistant, and Google search wanting to guide consumers on their healthcare experience, called the "Discovery to Action Pathway".

In 2020, Apple and Google Health announced changes to their operating systems that would enable exposure notification for users.

In 2009, in response to demand for added convenience, Google Health began establishing relationships with tele-health providers that will allow their users to sync the data shared during tele-health consultations with their online health records partnerships have been formed with the following companies: MDLiveCare and Hello Health.

Original Google Health was an opt-in service, meaning it could only access medical information volunteered by individuals.

In 2017, DeepMind Health was found to have not complied with UK data protection laws, according to the UK Information Commissioner's Office.

Deepmind Google Health was developing an app with the NHS Royal Free Hospital called Streams that helped monitor patients with acute kidney injury.

In June 2019, University of Chicago, its medical center, and Google Health were sued in a potential class-action lawsuit about patient record sharing.

In November 2019, Google Health engineers were reported to have had access to medical records held by Ascension as they were building products and as a result, the US government opened up an investigation on the partnership.

Google Health was a personal health record service with numerous competitors, including other proprietary PHR systems and open-source such as Microsoft's HealthVault, Dossia, and the open-source Indivo project.

Google Health's noted that for closed groups like the BRCA Sisterhood group, members' personal information was supposed to only be visible to other members.