- Google Cloud announced Wednesday that the Mayo Clinic is using a new generative AI search tool that allows businesses to create customized chatbots.
- In healthcare, this technology should enable employees to interpret data from patient histories, imaging records, genomics, labs, and more faster and with simpler queries.
- Generative AI is one of the hottest topics in technology, but healthcare poses a significant challenge because there is little room for inaccurate results.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai giving a keynote address at the Google I/O developer conference held at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California on May 10, 2023.
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As Google’s cloud business expands its use of new artificial intelligence technologies in healthcare, Mayo Clinic’s medical professionals will be able to quickly find patient information using tools that power the latest chatbots. became.
On Wednesday, Google Cloud announced that the Mayo Clinic new service It’s called Enterprise Search in Generative AI App Builder, which was introduced on Tuesday. With this tool, clients will be able to use her Google technology to create their own chatbots to explore large amounts of different internal data.
In the medical field, this means that employees can more quickly interpret data such as patient histories, imaging records, genomics and labs with simple queries, even when the information is stored in different formats and locations. To do. One of his top U.S. hospital systems with dozens of locations, the Mayo Clinic is an early adopter of Google’s technology as it seeks to power the use of generative AI in its healthcare system.
“The Mayo Clinic is a global leader in harnessing AI for good and is critical in identifying responsible ways to bring this transformative technology to healthcare,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said in a release. a great partner,” he said.
Generative AI has been the hottest topic in the tech industry since late 2022, when Microsoft-backed OpenAI launched its chatbot ChatGPT to the public. Google raced to catch up, rolling out the Bard AI chat service earlier this year and pushing the underlying technology into as many products as possible. Healthcare is a particularly challenging industry because there is less room for false answers and hallucinations that occur when AI models completely fabricate information.
Google said its approach to privacy ensures customers are in control of their data, and said the new service complies with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Google Cloud and the Mayo Clinic entered into a 10-year partnership in 2019. Mayo said: at the time The company chose Google Cloud as the “foundation for its digital transformation.” The partnership, announced Wednesday, marks the first step in an expanded agreement between the companies to work together on AI applications in healthcare.
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