Google Cloud is Partnering With Mayo Clinic

Google's cloud business is expanding its use of new artificial intelligence technologies in health care, giving medical professionals at Mayo Clinic the ability to quickly find patient information using the types of tools powering the latest chatbots. From a report: On Wednesday, Google Cloud said Mayo Clinic is testing a new service called Enterprise Search on Generative AI App Builder, which was introduced Tuesday. The tool effectively lets clients create their own chatbots using Google's technology to scour mounds of disparate internal data. In health care, that means workers can interpret data such as a patient's medical history, imaging records, genomics or labs more quickly and with a simple query, even if the information is stored across different formats and locations. Mayo Clinic, one of the top hospital systems in the U.S. with dozens of locations, is an early adopter of the technology for Google, which is trying to bolster the use of generative AI in the medical system.

Mayo Clinic will test out different use cases for the search tool in the coming months, and Vish Anantraman, chief technology officer at Mayo Clinic, said it has already been "very fulfilling" for helping clinicians with administrative tasks that often contribute to burnout. For instance, if a physician needs to see information about a cohort of female patients aged 45 through 55, including their mammograms and medical charts, they can enter that query into the search tool instead of seeking out each element separately. Similarly, if a physician needs to know which clinical trials a patient may match, they can search for that, too.

LOL!

[Sebby]

Great - one the world's biggest Privacy Rapists gets its tentacles into people's most private data.

"What could possibly go wrong?"

HIPAA Privacy Rules?

[Joe_Dragon]

HIPAA Privacy Rules?

Re: HIPAA here's a conspiracy theory

[Provocateur]

I'm sure that taking the individual letters of HIPAA and substituting the vowels with an alternative letter (also a vowel) and putting all that in your bowl of alphabet(!) soup will result in the word Google

The mobopoly gets more and more entrenched

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

I'm fully convinced at this point that there is no way to get rid of Google, break them up or legislate their activities in any way, shape or form.

For now they're fairly benign, but when they turn truly evil, be it on their own volition or at the behest of some nasty administration, the whole of humanity will be in deep trouble.

It's the perfect vergence of human stupidity

[nightflameauto]

Healthcare in America is a joke. Everything over the last two decades or more in healthcare, pharma, and insurance, is all based on increasing profits, while decreasing time/cost spent per patient for the administration. These two drives are pushing the administrators to make really hasty decisions about what helps the bottom line. These chatbots may be good at very specific tasks, but does that mean we want the world's most well-known privacy rapists shoving their chatbot tech into hospitals?

You know, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft went on a huge push a few years back trying to encourage people to link them in with banking and medical records. Everybody pretty much went, "Ah, no thanks." They've found the end-run around the wishes of the people. Go after the penny-pinching administrators. If they can find a way to shove this shit into banking, it'll happen. Then the big four of tech can literally own every single aspect of your life data-wise.

What a time to be alive.

Google Cloud is Partnering With Mayo Clinic

[fahrbot-bot]

While I'm surprised that there's an entire clinic dedicated to studying, and possibly developing, a sandwich spread and single condiment, I'm not sure this partnership is a bad thing. Sure, others, like mustard, may get less attention, but it may also lead to culinary breakthroughs. Or am I missing something?

Re:

[NoWayNoShapeNoForm]

Col. Mustard in the operating room with a loaf of rye bread. /s

Good luck with that

[laughingskeptic]

Mayo is an organization rife with self-important bureaucrats most of whom eschew responsibility at every turn. The kind a place where you have an hours long meeting with 11 people where ultimately the decision is to invite a 12th person to the meeting the next week. Then a 13th ... Weeks get eaten alive and you have have no progress to speak of on a project. For instance, one war story I heard is it took 2 years for them to fix a timeserver running free and ridiculously out of sync with reality. This is going to be absolute torture for the Google engineers assigned to this. They are going to expect to be handed data when in reality they are going to be handed a pile of bureaucrats to work with to get access to the data ... and good luck with that.

Move fast and break people

[Tablizer]

"Sorry, we gotta unplug your pacemaker. Google discontinued it because it wasn't profitable."