Google pursues wider access to diagnostic health tools such as ultrasounds

Google says it is working to expand access to diagnostic health tools such as ultrasounds, which it says about two-thirds of people worldwide lack.

The company has not yet described the specific steps, pointing readers to a follow-up it promised but did not include in the reports available.

Google also reports that its models estimated gestational age within 4 days of accuracy in a prospective clinical study, which it calls clinically meaningful. The company says expanding these tools to low-resource settings could help reduce maternal deaths and close gaps in care, but that depends on whether such expansion happens, and the reports do not describe any deployment.