Google Research at The Check Up: from healthcare innovation to real-world care settings
March 17, 2026
Avinatan Hassidim, VP Research, and Katherine Chou, VP Product, Google Research
AI can be instrumental in helping billions of people live longer, healthier lives. Today at The Check Up, our colleagues shared how we’re entering a new era of innovation to democratize scientific and clinical researc...
Google Research's efforts in AI for healthcare aim to provide high-quality care for everyone, focusing on personalized health, collaboration with clinicians, and the rise of agentic AI as true collaborators. The company is publishing their AI results in clinical journals to ensure transparency, reproducibility, and robustness through peer review. Collaborations with international medical institutions have led to scaling AI screening models for diabetic retinopathy, providing over one million scr...
