Forbes March 3, 2025
Dr. Sai Balasubramanian, M.D., J.D.

Google Cloud is enhancing its Vertex AI search platform for healthcare with multimodal AI capabilities. Specifically, it will be launching Visual Q&A, a new feature which will enable search through tables, charts and diagrams.

Why is this important? Because healthcare, as much as it would like to be, has not comprehensively digitized yet, and patient records and information are often scattered across numerous data sources and types. In many cases, noteworthy patient information and diagnostic tables are often collected or denoted in paper format, frequently requiring manual scanning into an EMR followed by laborious data entry and analysis.

In fact, a recent study cites that imaging data accounts for nearly 90% of...

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