Google Launches New Vertex AI Search Features for Healthcare Providers

Vertex AI has conversational search applications and question-answering capabilities which the healthcare providers can utilise to find answers to medical questions pertaining directly to a patient's medical records and get answers to general medical questions.

Tech giant Google has added generative AI-powered features into its Vertex AI platform, specifically designed for health and life sciences organisations.

These newly added features enable patient data search, including clinical sources such as FHIR data and clinical notes, which can be combined with Google's medical large language model, Med-PaLM. 

Google's Vertex AI is a search engine that allows organisations to build their own generative AI-enabled search engines for their customers. While Med-PaLM is a generative AI technology that utilises Google's LLMs to address medical questions.

Furthermore, Vertex AI has conversational search applications and question-answering capabilities which the healthcare providers can utilise to find answers to medical questions pertaining directly to a patient's medical records and get answers to general medical questions.

Additionally, the features comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) while integrating Google Cloud's Healthcare API and Healthcare Data Engine, along with Google Health's pilot product Care Studio. Currently, the application is available for trial by healthcare and life sciences companies. 

This initiative aligns with Google's mission to address the growing workforce shortage in the healthcare sector and lessen the administrative burden and physician burnout while giving customers the ability to retrieve accurate clinical information for more informed decision-making.

Sharing his views, Burak Gokturk, VP and general manager, Cloud AI and industry solutions, Google Cloud, said, "Bringing Google-quality, gen AI search capabilities across an organization's entire ecosystem, including EHRs, has the potential to dramatically improve efficiencies, provide clinical decision support, and increase the quality of care clinicians can give patients. Making Vertex AI Search more useful for healthcare and life science organizations is a priority for us because we know that having the right information and insights at the right time can make all the difference in health."

In another significant development, Google DeepMind launched AlphaMissense, an AI tool to predict harmful genetic mutations. This tool focuses on '˜missense' mutations that involve a single letter of the genetic code. The tool's learning involved analysing the DNA of humans and closely related primates, enabling it to recognise widespread genetic mutations,

In another instance, Google Cloud Technology collaborated with Apollo Expands to make healthcare accessible with Apollo's digital platform, Apollo24/7. 

This digital platform is entirely built on Google Cloud to provide Indians with an omnichannel healthcare experience through telemedicine, online doctor consultations, pharmaceutical delivery to their homes, and enhanced clinician decision-making.