Google is making a major privacy gamble. The tech giant just announced it's giving Fitbit's AI health coach the ability to read your medical records, marking the latest - and perhaps most personal - front in big tech's race to dominate AI-powered healthcare. Starting next month, US Fitbit users can voluntarily link lab results, medications, and visit history directly to the app, joining Amazon, OpenAI, and Microsoft in betting that consumers will trade their most sensitive data for personalized health insights.
Google is pushing deeper into your medicine cabinet. The company announced this week that its Fitbit AI health coach will soon be able to read your medical records, a move that blurs the line between fitness tracking and actual healthcare in ways that would've seemed unthinkable just a few years ago.
Starting next month in preview mode, US Fitbit users will be able to voluntarily link their medical records directly to the Fitbit app. That means lab results, prescription medications, and doctor visit history - the kind of information you'd normally only share with your physician - will now feed into the same AI system that currently nags you about hitting your step count.
The integration combines clinical data with the biometric information Fitbit already collects from its wearables. Heart rate, sleep patterns, activity levels, and now blood work and prescriptions will all flow into Google's AI models to generate what the company promises will be more personalized and actionable health recommendations. Think less "you should walk more" and more "based on your cholesterol levels and recent activity, here's a specific exercise plan."
But Google isn't breaking new ground here - it's playing catch-up. Amazon recently expanded access to its health AI agent, while for medical records earlier this year. also , creating what's rapidly becoming an all-out arms race among tech giants to own the AI healthcare space.
