news: Google has announced several projects aimed at addressing health equity. Health Equity Summit.

We’ll dive deeper into the three major announcements below.

1. Health education using YouTube

YouTube Health is developing the following video series: THE-IQ with Kaiser Family Foundation Address health equity in mental health, maternal health and access to healthcare. It is scheduled to be released in November.

• Loveland Foundation Make videos about mental health access for black women and girls.
• in the meantime, Thatcher Health Leadership Institute Create videos on the root causes of health disparities that highlight data challenges. Also, the National Birth Equity Collaborative will produce videos on how to improve the health of black mothers and those who give birth.

2. Easier search for government benefits

Google has updated its search functionality to allow users to filter results for providers that accept Medicaid. Patients can already search for Medicare providers, but we’ve created new filter options to make finding these providers easier.

• For context, 81.9 million people receive medicaid Coverage as of May 2022, according to Medicare and Medicaid Service Centers (CMS).

3. Equitable healthcare with Fitbit

Google is Fitbit Health Equity Research Initiative Include new academic and non-commercial research on health disparities. The winner will receive a Fitbit device, a Premium his membership, Google Cloud credits, or funds.academic research on wearable Like Fitbit, it not only makes care more equitable, but also fills a critical gap in documenting patient health. And over half of device owners are happy to share this information.

• 55% of device owners share data with their healthcare providers through apps. in person or by text and email, according to To Deloitte’s Connectivity and Mobile Trends Survey for Q1 2022.

To the point: Improving access to health information can make health care more equitable.

and blog post, Dr. Ivor HornGoogle’s Director of Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health called the information “determinants of health” and how Google can help patients access and ask questions about health information. pointing out. To provide vital health information, Google has turned both Search and YouTube into health tools for consumers.

• 70% of US adults say they use search engines like Google for health information, Around Dentsu survey conducted by consumer intelligence platform Toluna in March 2022.