Google announces new ways its providing health information at The Check Up

In a blog posting on Tuesday, for its annual health event The Check Up, Dr. Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer, Google said, in part: "…we are expanding that work to make sure people can find the right care at the right time. In the U.S., millions of people signed up for Medicaid during the pandemic. At that time, the requirement to re-enroll each year was paused, but that pause is about to expire on March 31. If people fail to re-enroll, they will lose their healthcare coverage. To help support people during this transition, we will make Medicaid re-enrollment information easier to find on Search…We are also employing new techniques to ensure we are connecting people with high quality, up-to-date information. Our conversational AI technology Duplex has called hundreds of thousands of healthcare providers in the U.S. to verify their information on Google Search. And we’ve used Duplex to verify if providers accept certain Medicaid plans in their state…We are also working to address major global health challenges like mental health. We know people turn to Google Search for actionable information in a crisis. Today we are announcing a new partnership with ThroughLine in New Zealand, the largest verified network of mental health and crisis helplines around the world. This will increase the number of crisis helplines that appear at the top of search results in additional languages and countries for searches related to suicide, domestic violence and other personal crisis topics…Later this month we will make more of Fitbit’s Health Metrics Dashboard feature available without a subscription to people using Fitbit with compatible devices in countries where the feature is available. Reference Link