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Google Health was the name given to a 2008–2012 version of a service, which allowed Google users to volunteer their health records—either manually or by logging into their accounts at partnered health services providers—into the Google Health system, thereby merging potentially separate health records into one centralized Google Health profile.
Calico, short for the California Life Company, [1] [2] was announced on September 18, 2013, prior to Google's restructuring and was founded by former GV CEO Bill Maris. [3] [4] In Google's 2013 Founders Letter, Larry Page described Calico as a company focused on "health, well-being, and longevity."
He is notable for his work as the Chief Health Strategist (2006–2012) at Google where he developed Google Health and Google Flu Trends. [1] He is a co-founder of the Smart Patients project. In 2019, Zeiger announced he would be joining Facebook as the Head of Health Strategy. [1]
Independent assessments have been made of the number and demographics of people who seek health information on Wikipedia, the scope of health information on Wikipedia, and the quality and reliability of the information on Wikipedia. [2] The English Wikipedia was estimated in 2014 to hold around 25,000 articles on health-related topics. [3]
Karen Bollinger DeSalvo (born August 4, 1966) [1] is an American business executive, physician and public health expert. She has been Google’s chief health officer since 2019. [2]
Project Baseline is a broad effort to map human health led by Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google Life Sciences), Alphabet, Inc.'s health sciences division, and was announced in the Wall Street Journal on July 24, 2014. [1]
The idea behind Google Flu Trends was that, by monitoring millions of users’ health tracking behaviors online, the large number of Google search queries gathered can be analyzed to reveal if there is the presence of flu-like illness in a population.
The Internet is widely used by the general public as a tool for finding health information. [1] In the late 1990s, researchers noted an increase in Internet users' access to health-related content despite the variation in the quality of information, level of accessibility, and overall health literacy. [2]