Google launches Gemini for Healthcare, and hospitals like Northwell hope it brings down your medical bill
On Tuesday, the company launched Gemini for Healthcare, an AI product that connects to the records, billing and insurance systems that hospitals and insurers already use—and is able to act between those systems.
Key points
- The new healthcare AI can pull a patient’s records from Epic and other systems into one single summary, flag gaps or conflicts between records, prepare and review prior authorizations, check what a patient’s insurance covers, estimate what they’ll owe, and search medical guidelines from groups like ASCO and the BMJ.
- Just keep focusing on prior authorization.” Aashima Gupta, Google Cloud’s global director of healthcare strategy, said nurses and doctors now spend much of their day moving information between systems.
- Launch customers include Northwell Health, Highmark Health, HCA Healthcare, Optum, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Hartford HealthCare and Stanford School of Medicine.
“All the fragmentation of information in healthcare is what has led to, in my mind, some of the costs that have gotten away from us, and also overutilization,” John D’Angelo, who took over as CEO of Northwell in October 2025, told Fortune.
Additional details
- They want to be able to take care of the patients.” Google AI is making things personal Gemini for Healthcare….
- Google Bringing bedside manners back to the bedside When you walk into a doctor’s office, you inevitably are given a clipboard with papers you’re all but certain you’ve completed through the portal online.
- Each physician completes about 40 prior authorizations a week, which takes around 13 hours of physician and staff time weekly, and 40% of practices have staff whose sole job is handling these requirements, according to the American Medical Association.
- In essence, it cuts down on the paperwork a doctor has to complete when they see a patient, bringing back that face-to-face consultation rather than letting paperwork pull doctors away from patients.
- “Right now, for every 10 minutes a doctor spends with a patient, they’re 20 minutes on the computer documenting, capturing stuff, looking up the old data, tracking things down,” D’Angelo said.
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