{"id":3305,"date":"2025-07-17T17:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3305\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:12:13","slug":"google-france-hosted-a-hackathon-to-tackle-healthcares-biggest-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3305\/","title":{"rendered":"Google France hosted a hackathon to tackle healthcare\u2019s biggest challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"j6kmr\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/health\/cloud-next-generative-ai-health\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">improving clinical trials<\/a> to easing <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/google-cloud\/generative-ai-healthcare-administration\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">administrative workloads<\/a>, AI is already changing what&#8217;s possible in healthcare. To help accelerate this progress, Google France recently brought together 130 experts for a 12-hour hackathon focused on building new medical prototypes using open AI models.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"d69bf\">Twenty-six teams used Google&#8217;s open models \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/developers\/gemma-open-models\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gemma<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/models\/gemma\/medgemma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MedGemma<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.googleblog.com\/en\/introducing-txgemma-open-models-improving-therapeutics-development\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TxGemma<\/a> \u2014 to develop functional prototypes addressing challenges that ranged from improving emergency-room triage to providing better support for oncology patients.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"f5eb6\">The ingenuity on display reflects a wider movement across Europe to apply AI to medicine and life sciences. To support this movement, Google.org announced a $5 million commitment to organizations using AI to advance European healthcare. This initiative will help local organizations and professionals build stronger digital health ecosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From improving clinical trials to easing administrative workloads, AI is already changing what&#8217;s possible in healthcare. To help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,2286],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}