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Google Fit: How to track your fitness goals and stay healthy
It's time to burn those summer calories
Google Fit is one of the easiest ways to track your physical activity, whether you exercise regularly or want to check how active you are. The service helps you track workouts and physical activities, including walks, bike rides, strolls, and step counts.
Google and WHO are joining forces to prevent medical misinformation on the internet
Trying not to repeat the mistakes made during the pandemic
Google wants to help you start taking better care of yourself. Just a week after it announced a new batch of tools for maintaining your mental health, the company is now looking into ways to make sure you get the right information about different illnesses and diseases. To do so, Google is partnering with the World Health Organization in an effort to prevent medical misinformation on the internet.
Google Health wants to speed up healthcare with machine learning and smartphones
Accurate results in a flash
Google Health is having a field day today — the company is dubbing it as "The Check Up" — and part of it means checking up on what artificial intelligence has enabled in and out of doctors' offices around the world: using ordinary equipment to quickly generate accurate results.
Google looks to be getting ready to copy Apple Health's best feature
It could help you track your medical records, lab results, and more
Keeping track of your health and fitness is a whole lot more manageable these days. Thanks to phones and smartwatches, tracking your heart rate, caloric intake, exercise goals, and other metrics is easier than ever. Google is testing out a new application focusing on medical records, in order to give users a better understanding of their health and well-being.
If you have a skin condition you want a professional opinion on, Google might be able to help you out with its newly-announced dermatology assist tool.
Google wants to crowdsource data for medial research with its new Health Studies app
The app uses federated learning to keep user data private
Google makes a lot of experimental apps, but the company's latest one couldn't have landed at a more opportune time. The Google Health Studies app allows users to sign up and participate in research studies to advance medical knowledge — and its first project tackles respiratory illnesses.
If you've ever searched Google for an illness - mostly common stuff, like Pink Eye or Flu - then you've seen the Health Conditions feature. It's a quick-reference card that provides at-a-glance information like symptoms, how common it is, and a lot more.