Nova Scotia forms partnership with Google Cloud to improve digital health care – Halifax [Video]

The Nova Scotia government is spending $42 million over five years to help improve access to health information through Google Cloud’s search tools and artificial intelligence.

The province said Wednesday that three projects are in the works.

Premier Tim Houston said the partnership will offer advanced search capabilities to help people find information across the health system, which includes the Nova Scotia Health website and the YourHealthNS app.

Houston said the use of Google’s search technology would also help reduce administrative work for doctors and make the diagnosing of illness easier.

“Nova Scotia is the first province to fully implement these solutions, but we’re not the first organization to try them,” said Houston. “We don’t have to recreate every wheel, we just need to find the best wheel and bring it here to Nova Scotia.”

Houston said the technology is already being used by organizations such as the Mayo Clinic …