Google Health today hosted its annual The Checkup Up event with announcements spanning Search, Fitbit Health Metrics, AI, and developer tools.

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Fitbit Health Metrics

If you use a Fitbit device, the in-app Health Metrics Dashboard tracks a week’s worth of Breathing rate, Heart-rate variability (HRV), Skin temperature, Oxygen saturation (SpO2), and Resting heart rate (RHR).

At the moment, only those subscribed to Fitbit Premium get trends and longer-term historical data (up to 90 days), but that’s soon changing:

Update: This wider availability of the 30 and 90-day views for data is beginning to roll out today and will be fully available “later this month.”

Google Search

Meanwhile, Google has used Duplex to call “hundreds of thousands of healthcare providers in the U.S. to verify their information on Google Search,” as well as to find out if “providers accept certain Medicaid plans in their state.” Speaking of Medicaid, Google is better surfacing re-enrollment information, as well as “providers that identify as community health centers offering free or low cost care.”

Google today announced a new partnership with ThroughLine in New Zealand to “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.”

Open Health Stack

Google wants to make it easier to build apps for healthcare workers by offering “open-source building blocks built on an interoperable data standard” with Open Health Stack. This includes making it easier to access information and find other insights, with data being stored securely while being available offline.

Google AI

Google is exploring ultrasound device, which are affordable and portable, and AI models that help “identify important information like gestational age in expecting mothers,” as well as for use in breast cancer detection:

Meanwhile, work with the Mayo Clinic on using AI as part of cancer treatment continues”

Lastly, Google is partnering to make AI-powered chest x-ray screening for tuberculosis, which is treatable but requires cost-effective detection, more widely available:

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