Google hopes that one day it might be able to save your life. As the tech giant moves deeper into healthcare, it plans to fight medical misinformation in search results, create tools to be used by thousands of doctors, and improve the accuracy of diagnosis with technologies like computer vision to read X-rays.
Those are just its aims for this year. Google’s broader health mission was outlined at a conference in San Francisco earlier this month, where its top doctor set out to show why the company may be the most ambitious of the many trying to use technology to transform healthcare.
“We have 10 companies with 1bn users and five with 5bn or some insane numbers,” said David Feinberg. “We would love to be one of those where we can say we saved billions of years of life this year.”