Google: Search results for health could lead you to a doctor via video chat

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Google, like any big company hoping to change the world, is very serious about health, and it looks like they want to start doing more on their part to help people get medical advice whenever they require it. The company has apparently started to trial a feature within Google Search that will connect you to a health professional via video chat when looking up symptons.

 

Searching ?knee pain,? for instance, would not only give you information about the condition and why it may be affecting you, but might also offer to connect you to a licensed physician who can give you some advice or give you some leg exercises to help alleviate the pain. The feature seems to be activated for a very limited amount of accounts right now so we?ve been unable to give it a spin for ourselves.

 

Although the Reddit user who originally reported this story didn?t confirm it, we imagine the video chat button will take you to Google Helpouts, Google?s up-and-coming service that connects users and professionals for those seeking some sort of help. Topics in Helpouts range between health and homework, computers and cooking, and anything else you might think of that someone could help you with that doesn?t require their physical presence.

 

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