Google's annual health event, "The Check Up," just wrapped, and like most areas these days, a healthy injection of AI is on the way. At the event, Google shared how it's using AI to improve medicine for physicians, researchers, and ordinary people.

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Several of Google's initiatives are directly for doctors and medical scientists, such as an AI-powered co-researcher that helps develop hypotheses, an AI model that helps drug developers understand how safe or efficient a new medicine might be (hopefully giving in-development drugs an easier path to clearance), and a Gemini model that helps physicians create more personalized cancer treatment options.

A few of them, though, are more focused on consumers.

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How Google is using AI to improve your health

Here's a look at three big ways Google is using AI to help you gain a better understanding of your overall health.

1. More credible health advice in Google Search

We've all heard the advice, "Never Google your symptoms." Google is trying to change that mindset by offering more helpful health results in Search and in AI Overviews. 

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Google says it's improving AI Overviews on health topics to help users find "credible and relevant information about health, from common illnesses to rare conditions." It's also providing knowledge panels on common conditions like the flu or the cold and introducing a new feature labeled "What People Suggest." Using AI, Google says it's organizing different online discussions into easy-to-understand themes, giving you an overview of what people with similar conditions are saying.

2. Easier collaboration across different health apps

Every medical group has its own app these days, and if you visit different doctors in different groups, it can be confusing to remember where a certain record is. To help ease that confusion, Google is launching its own Medical Records APIs globally in Health Connect. 

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Google says these APIs will connect your health data from your device with data from your doctor's office to let apps have a total view of your health. "Important medical information like your allergies, medications, immunizations and information, lab results, and prescriptions," Google says, "will always be available for you, protected and private."

3. A life-saving addition to the Pixel Watch

Last month, the Pixel Watch 3 got perhaps its most important feature ever with the addition of pulse loss detection. If your watch senses that you don't have a pulse, it will automatically place a call to emergency services. This feature already exists in 14 European countries, but it's coming to America by the end of this month.

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