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Written By: Editorial Team | Updated : April 6, 2016 10:03 AM IST
In yet another effort towards the vision of empowering people with credible and quality Healthcare information, Apollo Hospitals has worked with Google to add health information to Google's Knowledge Graph in India. This new feature aims to give people access to health information quickly and easily. The health card is a highly standardized and reader-friendly format of information that gets presented on the Google search engine. It aims to help consumers and people's access and appreciate information quickly and easily. (Read: Google s new parent company Alphabet to focus on healthcare)
Henceforth, when a user asks Google about common health conditions, he/she will start getting relevant medical facts right up front and will be able to see typical symptoms, as well as details on how common the condition is whether it's critical, if it's contagious, what ages it affects, and more. For some conditions, high-quality illustrations from licensed medical illustrators are also available. All the medical information that gets presented in the cards is reviewed and certified by the Specialists of Apollo Hospitals. (Read: How Google glass can change healthcare)
The focus is to empower people with accurate, appropriate and easy to understand information so as to support them and provide a framework from which they can have a better conversation with their doctor or dive deeper on the web. Since the advent of internet, and access to a variety of health-related information, consumers have been attempting to find answers and classifications to many of their health concerns from the internet. To empower today's connected patient, consultants from Apollo Hospitals across locations have come together for this initiative and support it with their inputs to validate medical information on web on health concerns ranging from a diaper rash to a heart attack. (Read: Read this before you look for solutions to health problems on Google)
According to a press release on the website.
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