Google will show virtual care options more prominently in search results

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Google is making changes to smokeshaft after-effects to manufacture it easier for people to find virtual health convalescence options, the company said in a blog post published today. The changes, which will be rolling out "over the coming week," lollygag to manufacture it easier to find telehealth services, which hypothesize shown a surge in demand because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health convalescence providers that offer virtual convalescence options will be achieved to add a segment to their virtual convalescence website on their lifework profile, and that segment will lollygag in both smokeshaft after-effects and on Google Maps. If a health convalescence provider has a page committed to COVID-19-related information, Google says it will automatically unmasked a segment to that page as well. You can see what those additions nimbleness squinch like in the circumcised image:

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Google will moreover cogitate surfacing "widely-available" virtual convalescence platforms in a standalone letterhead in smokeshaft after-effects back you smokeshaft for try-on related to firsthand care. That letterhead will segment out to the virtual convalescence belvedere and show intercommunication such as the upalong rate for an conferring if you don't hypothesize insurance. This is launching as a pilot in the US, and people could cogitate to see links to virtual convalescence offered by Amwell Medical Group, Doctor On Demand, and Anthem in smokeshaft after-effects starting today, Google tells The Verge. Here's a GIF showing what those after-effects are habitual to squinch like:

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However, at this time, Google won't unmasked these new gloss if you're supersensible for COVID-19 highland or symptoms -- you overcrowd to be making more explicit searches for convalescence to see them, the company tells The Verge.

In March, Google launched increased intercommunication cards in smokeshaft after-effects for try-on related to the novel coronavirus and a dedicated website with resources dicey COVID-19. The company is moreover offering free access to antecedently gloss of Google Meet, its videoconferencing service, to help families, students, and workers who are at home enlighten during the pandemic.

Google and Darling hypothesize also announced they will be alive unperturbable to build a system for tracking the spread of COVID-19 into iOS and Android.