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RAFAEL FIGUEROA: Since I was a teenager,
I knew I want to cause impact.
In my work with an NGO, I had a chance
to meet a lot of rural families, which
opened my eyes for the lack of medical specialists
per patients in Brazil.
And I knew that with telemedicine, we
could connect these patients in remote areas
with the best doctors in Brazil.
We developed an easy-to-use solution and grew super fast.
With our technology, we integrate with medical devices.
Your brainwaves are recorded, uploaded to the cloud,
and one of our specialists that is 1,500 miles away
makes that diagnostic online.
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ARIE MEIR: The way Google supports
companies like Portal Telemedicina
is by providing them access to resources.
These resources are in the form of mentors, access
to new product that is being developed,
and to open doors for them.
RAFAEL FIGUEROA: In the last two years,
we got access to the top machine learning specialists globally.
This helped us to scale the solution and thousands
of daily diagnostics with no human mistakes.
PETER NORVIG: I think it's an exciting time now
for AI in health care.
We had a computer vision project that
utilized TensorFlow to look at X-ray images
and classify what diseases are present in each image.
We were able to achieve about 90% accuracy, which
is the best anyone's been able to do on this task.
We're gathering more data that we've never seen before,
different diseases that we just didn't have
any approaches to in the past.
ANDRÉ TARGINO: We imagine in this situation that the doctor
will receive an exam and needs to provide a report on it.
Let's say if the guy has a fracture,
and then he finds something and just gives a report of that.
But on the same exam, there could be a nodule, stage one.
The doctor would not see that, but the AI will.
ELIEZER SILVA: AI will replace repetitive tasks,
and the physician use more soft skills
to understand the patient.
GABRIELA OKRONGLI: The goal is to empower the doctors.
We want to give them a tool that makes them
more comfortable, more agile, and safer in their daily jobs.
ARIE MEIR: So what I find really exciting
is the potential for technology to change the health care
industry and the ability to change the way we
provide health care to people globally.
ANDRÉ TARGINO: Yeah.
I like to say that we save lives,
including yours and mine.
Google is helping us in this journey,
and as more people work with AI, the easier it's
going to be for us to do our job and to save lives.
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