{"id":271766,"date":"2025-07-18T10:13:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/271766\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:13:39","slug":"google-france-hosted-a-hackathon-to-tackle-healthcares-biggest-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/271766\/","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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improving clinical trials<\/a> to easing <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/google-cloud\/generative-ai-healthcare-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gemma<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/models\/gemma\/medgemma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MedGemma<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.googleblog.com\/en\/introducing-txgemma-open-models-improving-therapeutics-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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":271767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,3283,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-271766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-none","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114873709746053555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}