Google And Doctors Tie Up To Provide Qualified Information For Diseases Identification

On August 6, Ben Gomes, Google senior vice president – Search and Assistant announced that it has worked with doctors to provide qualified information for diseases identification.

Gomes, when talking with students from St Joseph School – his alma mater, replied to a question on dealing with inaccurate information online in diagnosing diseases.

A student called Claudius said that with so much unverified information on Google, many people mistakenly believe that they are suffering from dangerous diseases.

According to Gomes, his team has been researching this. Their solution was working with doctors to know some symptoms' probability, what kinds of diseases that have these symptoms to get the most qualified information.

He added that the information on the search engine is from doctors who work at Mayo Clinic – a healthcare company as well as other medical facilities in different countries.

Gomes said to the students, claiming that Google has been working on getting the qualified information to provide to internet users, “So people actually get the right sense of the information that they are getting.”

Gomes also visited the classrooms and talked with students studying in the computer lab. He said that the students were lucky to receive early exposure to computer science compared with his days where having a calculator was a privilege.

He went on to advise them to always be curious. He said:

While he was born in Tanzania, Gomes was actually raised in Bengaluru.

He attended St Joseph School, received his bachelor's degree from Case Western Reverse University and his computer science Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley.