The search engine, which is still widely used in the field of health, added a kind of medical encyclopedia to these features in 2015. this files presented to the user during the search should enlighten them with facts and concrete data about their minor everyday ailments. Google is taking a new step today and is positioning itself as a pioneer in health 2.0!
- Also to discover: Google will block your medical file from appearing in the search engine.
“Okay Google. Am I depressed?”
In partnership with the “National Alliance On Mental Illness”, an American organization dedicated to research on mental illness, Google launched the famous search engine. depression exam. This is no nonsense: the test has real clinical validity!
Better, PHQ-9 – the official name of the survey in the medical field – does not open on a stupid site. The test opens directly in the search engine. Therefore it is fully integrated. The user experience is therefore radically different. Currently the survey is only accessibleUS users typing the term “depression”” in the search engine. The functionality is expected to be deployed more or less worldwide in the long run.
However, Google would like to point out that this survey does not exist. I’m not here to diagnose you as depressedis intended only to inform you if your situation requires a consultation with a mental health professional. An important warning sponsored by the “National Alliance on Mental Illness”.
Google and its parent company, Alphabet, thus confirm the company’s interest in health issues. That being the case, will it soon be possible to diagnose your own cancer using Google like this young Englishman?
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