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Google DeepMind·· 2026-04-30

Enabling a new model for healthcare with AI co-clinician

Enabling a new model for healthcare with AI co-clinician

AI summary

Google DeepMind announced AI co-clinician research to explore AI agents assisting patient care under clinical supervision. In blinded assessments of 98 real primary-care queries, 97 responses had no critical errors, and doctors preferred them to existing evidence-synthesis tools. Across 140 consultation skills, AI matched or exceeded primary-care doctors on 68, but expert doctors were better overall at recognising red flags and guiding key physical examinations.

Selection record

AdmittedSum of both 124 ≥ twice the threshold 120

Source tier
Official, first-hand; this tier's threshold is 60
Pre-filter
passed:Google DeepMind发布AI临床协作模型研究
Why it was chosen
Blinded comparisons with doctors and a two-agent safety architecture establish the current capability boundaries of medical agents.

A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.

Source: Google DeepMind · deepmind.google