Google Cloud launches healthcare interoperability solution

"Google Cloud has launched a new solution which aims to enable interoperability in healthcare.

Healthcare Data Engine is an end-to-end solution for healthcare and life sciences organisations that collect data from multiple sources, including medical records, clinical trials, and research data. It provides clinicians, planners and researchers with access to a real-time and full picture of a patient’s record in a secure cloud environment which supports analytics and AI.

It follows Google Cloud’s Healthcare API, which was launched in 2018, and was an open-source tool designed to enable healthcare providers to collect and manage various types of medical data via the cloud.

This latest solution from the search engine builds and extends on its Healthcare API by enabling an interoperable medical record and providing clinical insights in FHIR format, the healthcare industry standard.

Joe Corkery, director of product management at Google Cloud, said: “We built Healthcare Data Engine to make it easier for healthcare and life sciences organisations to bring together their data silos to innovate and improve health outcomes.”

Healthcare Data Engine can map more than 90% of HL7v2 messages to FHIR, such as medication orders or patient updates, across a number of electronic health records, according to the tech giant. Benefits of this mean customers get up-and-running quickly and avoids the need to create custom tooling or services to translate between data schemas (the organisation of data as a blueprint)..." Lire la suite