Talk:Google Health

Release notice
Google Health is now public. This redirect should be changed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.57.245.11 (talk) 21:35, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

The first official sign of Google Health has been released. The redirect on this should be moved soon.


 * I replaced the redirect with a new article, but it's still pretty bare. Please help contribute! -Clueless (talk) 04:22, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Intended audience
Is this article intended to address consumers, providers or developers? I'd like to add some things about the way the service works but I'm not sure how specific I should be. Cosmo7 (talk) 15:05, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Broken Link for Source?
The URL provided for [2] or "However, it does encourage users to set up profiles for other individuals." now redirects to "What's New" on google health, which has nothing related to that statement in the wiki page, so I'm assuming a new citation is needed. I'm new to editing wikipedia articles, so I just wanted to bring this to someone's attention more suited to edit the page appropriately. Ludaligist (talk) 15:43, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Changing to Past Tense Wording
Because Google Health has been euthanized (get it?), I'd thought I'd start working on some of the wording to at least make it consistent. I'll start work soonish JbTruthiness (talk) 04:12, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Google Health has been given a 'blood transfusion': https://www.businessinsider.com/google-new-health-unit-fold-in-deepmind-healthcare-unit-2018-11 and 'resuscitated': https://health.google/ --94.142.77.80 (talk) 16:16, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * This entire article needs to be rewritten, Google Health never "dissolved" in 2012 they just changed and the history is not found in this version of the WP article unfortunately. Lots of news stories in 2019 & 2020 about changes to Google Health. Jooojay (talk) 21:50, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I made a lot of edits here today, please feel free to add a note here if you want to discuss the changes. Thanks, Jooojay (talk) 23:39, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

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Removing section about YouTube controversy
Hey there is a section about YouTube controversy, which is cited and well-worded. That being said, I don't see how it pertains to Google Health. YouTube is a distinct branch of Google. Surely we can agree that we can't cover all branches of Google in this article (although other articles on Wikipedia can). I think it's appropriate for the YouTube controversies section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Controversies Here's the content below which I'm removing,

"YouTube chief executive officer Susan Wojcicki announced efforts to connect people to trusted information about the coronavirus pandemic. This included a COVID-19 news shelf, with videos from health authorities and news organizations. YouTube also said they were consulting on an ongoing basis with health authorities like the WHO and local organizations like the CDC, the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare, and India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, as well as expert medical and public health professionals, to design policies based on the latest science. YouTube updated its policies to prohibit content with harmful medical information, and removed over 200,000 videos for violating medical policies. [non-primary source needed]

At the same time, YouTube and other social media sites had been criticized by civil rights advocates and health experts. The Southern Poverty Law Center noted that hate groups and racist pundits had pushed misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic on mainstream social media platforms such as YouTube throughout the crisis, despite companies like YouTube’s parent company Google pledging to fight fake news about the virus. The SPLC pointed out that videos containing racist misinformation about COVID created by Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, a white supremacist organization, had been posted and disseminated on YouTube. The SPLC also noted that despite being banned from Twitter since 2018, American Renaissance’s YouTube channel and its 126,000 subscribers had remained, as of April 2020."

Christinejwest I appreciate you adding this content, and like I said I think the content itself is good, but hopefully you get my point. Let me know what your thoughts are if you please. Thanks :)

makeswell (talk) 17:47, 3 April 2021 (UTC)