Google's AMIE Study in The Lancet Tests Conversational Diagnostic AI Before Primary-Care Visits

Google and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have moved AMIE, Google's text-based conversational medical AI system, into a peer-reviewed real-world primary-care study, with The Lancet publishing the prospective feasibility results on October 8, 2026. The study found that supervised pre-visit chats with AMIE could collect histories, summarize them for clinicians and present possible diagnoses for discussion before an urgent-care appointment, while also exposing practical limits that still keep the system in research territory.