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New collaboration with Fitbit to drive positive health outcomes

As I’ve shared in the past, Google Cloud’s vision for the healthcare industry is very much a reflection of Google’s overall mission. We’re building healthcare-specific products and solutions as well as supporting a growing partner ecosystem to help companies organize healthcare data in a way that is accessible and interoperable, but also secure, enabling them to create a positive and lasting impact on human health.


Today we’re announcing a new collaboration with Fitbit across wearables and digital health that will help drive positive health outcomes at scale. Fitbit has chosen Google Cloud as their preferred cloud provider and will be using our Cloud Healthcare API to provide an interoperability solution that enables their users to collaborate on care with their own healthcare providers. For example, using Cloud Healthcare API with Fitbit’s newly acquired Twine Health platform. The two companies will also be exploring how Google Cloud’s machine learning APIs can help them uncover deeper insights to benefit their users. 


Although we’re just getting started in this collaboration, we’re excited by what’s possible. To date, Fitbit has sold more than 76 million devices, built a community of more than 25 million active users and has one of the world’s largest health and fitness databases. We hope that by helping them take advantage of our highly secure platform and support for open standards, we can bring better health to more people around the world.


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Google Cloud for Healthcare: new APIs, customers, partners and security updates

Google Cloud’s goal for healthcare is very much a reflection of Google’s overall mission: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Applying this mission to healthcare means using open standards to help enable data sharing and interactive collaboration, while also providing a secure platform. Just imagine if all healthcare providers could easily, securely and instantaneously collaborate while caring for you. Ultimately, we hope that better flow of data will inspire new discoveries with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), leading to insights that improve patient outcomes.

This week at HIMSS we’re showcasing our progress toward serving this mission through our Google Cloud Platform (GCP), G Suite and Chrome solutions, our work with customers and partners, and our focus on compliance and security.

Unlocking data with the new Cloud Healthcare API

We’ve recently launched the new Cloud Healthcare API, which addresses the significant interoperability challenges in healthcare data. The new API provides a robust, scalable infrastructure solution to ingest and manage key healthcare data types—including HL7, FHIR and DICOM—and lets our customers use that data for analytics and machine learning in the cloud.  

As part of our early access launch, we’re already working with a group of customers and partners, including the team at the Stanford School of Medicine. Here’s what Somalee Datta, Ph.D., Stanford School of Medicine Director of Research IT, had to say about our work together:

"Open standards are critical to healthcare interoperability as well as for enabling biomedical research. We have been using the Google Cloud Genomics API for a long time and are very excited to see Google Cloud expanding its offerings to include the new Cloud Healthcare API. The ability to combine interoperability with Google Cloud’s scalable analytics will have a transformative impact on our research community."

Our goal with the Cloud Healthcare API is to help transform the healthcare industry through the use of cloud technologies and machine learning. Healthcare is increasingly moving to the cloud, and the adoption of machine learning will allow the industry to unlock insights that can lead to significant clinical improvements for patients. The Cloud Healthcare API is currently available in an early access release, but over the next year, we plan to roll it out to more customers and partners—let us know if you’re interested.  

In addition to the the Cloud Healthcare API, we have a long history of supporting open APIs directly on GCP. Our Cloud Genomics API has provided an implementation of the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health APIs for many years now. Through an API-first approach, we can help healthcare enterprises simplify data interoperability by providing a strong foundation with cloud infrastructure and services. For example, Apigee enables healthcare enterprises to manage and deploy FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) APIs on top of their existing electronic health record systems.  

How our healthcare customers are using Google Cloud

Beyond our work on APIs, our approach is to give healthcare customers the tools they need to accelerate projects in areas like population health, personalized medicine and clinical research. At HIMSS we’ll talk in more detail about how our customers are using Google Cloud. Here are a few examples:

M*Modal is working with Google Cloud to reinvent the experience of healthcare and mitigate widespread physician burnout. The collaboration leverages M*Modal’s success in adoption of its physician-assistive, AI-based solutions with Google Cloud’s expertise in AI at scale to align innovation with market needs. M*Modal solutions deliver AI-powered, real-time contextual understanding and more enhanced, actionable insights from clinical data to the doctor directly at the point of care.

Lahey Health is making the move to G Suite for its many benefits, including innovation, scalability, collaboration, security and productivity. From the security perspective, they chose G Suite for our team of dedicated security professionals, malware scanning for early detection of global campaigns, and secure end-to-end infrastructure that has built-in protections across many layers.

The Chilean Health Ministry is using Google Cloud’s Apigee platform to provide a nationwide API-based connectivity to help ensure data, applications and services are easily, yet securely, available when and where needed. This connectivity helps secure access to patient information, regardless of whether it’s needed in one of Chile’s 1,000 remote medical facilities or in one of its connected health centers.

Cleveland Clinicis using Google Cloud’s Apigee platform to realize the full potential of their underlying electronic medical record through FHIR APIs. Using a secure, scalable and industry-grade API platform, Apigee allows Cleveland Clinic to enable, augment and extend functionality of their EHR. It’s also enabling them to run advanced analytics and ML-based predictive models, revealing insights to clinicians that help them deliver improved patient care.

Rush University Medical Center is also using Apigee to enhance many aspects of patient care and patient experience. They're looking to optimize scheduling, identify excess costs, reduce emergency department wait times, reducing readmissions and identifying and predicting cybersecurity threats using Google Cloud's capabilities in AI and ML.

Color is using Variant Transforms—a new open source tool we recently released that helps export genomic variants directly into BigQuery—to discover new capabilities for their cancer diagnostic service. When the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard first brought the GATK Best Practices pipeline to GCP in 2015, it was $45 to analyze a single genome. Since then, Broad has steadily brought down the cost to a little over $5 by optimizing its use of GCP, while maintaining (and even improving) the quality of the output, and has recently made this same pipeline—at the same cost—available to researchers around the world.

Middlesex Hospital and Chapters Health System are using Chrome to provide a secure, future-proof entry point to the cloud, connecting their staff to data-driven systems so they can focus on what’s most important: delivering great patient care.

How we're working with partners

Partners are essential to the work we do with healthcare customers. Here are a few that we’re talking about at HIMSS:

Flex introduced BrightInsight, a secure, managed services platform running on GCP. BrightInsight aggregates data to deliver real-time intelligence and optimize the value of connected drug, device or combination products. It’s designed to support CE-marked and FDA-regulated medical devices, combination products and Software as a Medical Device requirements for pharmaceutical and medtech companies. Flex is partnering with Google Cloud to deliver insights with customizable analytics dashboards that take advantage of our advanced machine learning and AI capabilities.

Imagia is transforming the way researchers can investigate disease characterization, progression and treatment response.

To address the increased demand for genomics, Kanteron Systems has introduced telegenomics on GCP as an addition to its Precision Medicine Platform.

Client Outlook has integrated their eUnity medical imaging viewer with the new Cloud Healthcare API, enabling them to provide a seamless visualization experience for medical images stored on GCP.

WuXi NextCODE’s massively scalable genomics database management system and clinical and research applications will be available to all Google Cloud users later this year.

And, on the hardware front, with Chrome solutions and technology partnerships, we’re also announcing a new collaboration between Healthcast, Citrix and Chrome OS that aims to provide a more secure and economical approach to data access. In another example, using VMware’s Digital Clinical Workspace and Point of Care solutions with a Chromebook allows users to securely access sensitive data and apps.

How we’re focusing on security and compliance

We can’t talk about improving healthcare without addressing security and compliance. We’re continuing to expand HIPAA compliance coverage across G Suite and GCP. Today, we announced that Google App Engine and Cloud Machine Learning Engine are covered, joining more than two dozen other HIPAA-compliant GCP services

https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance/hipaa/

, including Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage and BigQuery.

Come by and say hello at HIMSS

There have been a lot of developments in our work in healthcare over the last year. We’re excited to be back at HIMSS and looking forward to working with everyone there. Stop by our booth and check out our sessions if you’re at HIMSS this week.

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Google Cloud at RSNA: engaging with the medical imaging community

Medical imaging is a critical pillar of modern healthcare: It's estimated that more than 300 million advanced imaging procedures are performed a year, and the majority of medical interventions require some type of imaging for diagnostic purposes. Next to genomics, medical images are one of the fastest growing data sources in the healthcare space.

At Google Cloud, we’re working with the research community, clinical community and the diagnostic imaging industry to help care providers be more accurate and effective in order to improve patient outcomes. And we’ve been excited to see our customers and technology partners use Google Cloud services and tools to uncover powerful insights that may help drive better patient care and facilitate better collaboration among care providers.

Here's a little bit more about what our partners and customers are doing with Google Cloud, and what they have to say about it.

Change Healthcare is a leading provider of enterprise imaging solutions. By combining Change Healthcare’s clinical expertise and industry knowledge with our strengths in the areas of cloud infrastructure, advanced analytics and collaboration tools, we aim to meaningfully impact outcomes for patients and care providers. Change Healthcare is using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to provide a more relevant, pervasive, scalable and cost-effective data infrastructure, and leveraging G Suite to develop new collaborative solutions for imaging specialists.

“Change Healthcare is positioned to transform the value that imaging brings to healthcare providers. By working with Google Cloud in this strategic collaboration, we are poised to accelerate that transformation. In today’s dynamic healthcare industry, providers are looking for new ways to improve patient care. That is why Change Healthcare will be working with Google Cloud to introduce innovative technologies and solutions to address the challenges healthcare providers face both today and in the future.” —Erkan Akyuz, Executive Vice President and President for Imaging, Workflow & Care Solutions, Change Healthcare

For partners like Kanteron Systems, GCP is providing a path to deployment at scale. Kanteron is leveraging their expertise in multimodality medical imaging and clinical genomics, using our artificial intelligence and cloud capabilities to help radiologists, pathologists, surgeons and oncologists collaborate by sharing and visualizing patient data with the relevant clinical context.

“Our focus is crystal clear: help clinicians deliver the best possible care. Leveraging Google Cloud’s healthcare-focused platform helps us get to this goal faster.” —Jorge Cortell, Founder and CEO, Kanteron Systems

Partners like Ambra Health, lifeIMAGE and Nautilus Medical are growing their workflow-driven, medical image sharing networks globally by leveraging Google Cloud. The partnership enables care coordination and collaboration on novel insights across multiple entities such as hospitals, imaging centers, patients and labs.

“In a world with 400 petabytes of imaging data produced annually, we plan to leverage Google Cloud’s global footprint to help our customers in a highly-regulated and life-critical space to perform at scale and manage IT risk effectively.” —Matthew A. Michela, CEO, lifeIMAGE

Partners like Zebra Medical Vision are using TensorFlow to train neural networks on existing radiology scans and create new models that aim to help clinicians detect specific conditions. These models are run using Cloud Machine Learning Engine to analyze new scans and deliver insights to hospitals to help inform clinical decisions at scale. Customers like Imagia are using machine learning APIs to accelerate AI-first multi-institutional research in precision medicine and deliver radiomics biomarkers for personalized healthcare. Companies like Arterys are using TensorFlow to generate heart measurements that may help cardiologists and radiologists work more effectively by automating some of the more repetitive, manual tasks, allowing physicians spend more time focusing on their patients.

Enterprise imaging IT-focused DICOM Systems is using Google Cloud to offer their customers the option of cloud storage. 

"The imaging industry typically upgrades or replaces their PACS solution every five to eight years. This is a pain for the hospital's IT department. We are starting to see healthcare customers recognize the power of the cloud—and how to leverage the cloud as a core part of their IT strategy." — Dmitriy Tochilnik, President and CTO, Dicom Systems

Client Outlook, the maker of eUnity, is providing an imaging viewer which can visualize radiology images stored on-premise or in the cloud. By integrating with Zebra Medical Vision’s AI1 platform, Client Outlook surfaces imaging-based measurements such as bone density and coronary calcium, helping augment radiology workflows.

“There is a need in the market for tools that help physicians be more effective in translating diagnostic images into clinical insights. We see our product as a platform serving these tools to the right user in the right context. With Google Cloud, we aim to use the emerging ecosystem of intelligent solutions to make sure that our users have the right tools for the job.” — Steve Rankin, CEO, Client Outlook


This week we’ll be at RSNA (Booth 8161), where you can learn more and meet some of our ecosystem partners. We’ll demo some of our work as well as host a corporate symposium featuring a panel discussion on the role of machine intelligence in the future of radiology (RSVP here). We’d love to learn how we can work with you to transform healthcare.

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Google Cloud at RSNA: engaging with the medical imaging community

Medical imaging is a critical pillar of modern healthcare: It's estimated that more than 300 million advanced imaging procedures are performed a year, and the majority of medical interventions require some type of imaging for diagnostic purposes. Next to genomics, medical images are one of the fastest growing data sources in the healthcare space.

At Google Cloud, we’re working with the research community, clinical community and the diagnostic imaging industry to help care providers be more accurate and effective in order to improve patient outcomes. And we’ve been excited to see our customers and technology partners use Google Cloud services and tools to uncover powerful insights that may help drive better patient care and facilitate better collaboration among care providers.

Here's a little bit more about what our partners and customers are doing with Google Cloud, and what they have to say about it.

Change Healthcare is a leading provider of enterprise imaging solutions. By combining Change Healthcare’s clinical expertise and industry knowledge with our strengths in the areas of cloud infrastructure, advanced analytics and collaboration tools, we aim to meaningfully impact outcomes for patients and care providers. Change Healthcare is using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to provide a more relevant, pervasive, scalable and cost-effective data infrastructure, and leveraging G Suite to develop new collaborative solutions for imaging specialists.

“Change Healthcare is positioned to transform the value that imaging brings to healthcare providers. By working with Google Cloud in this strategic collaboration, we are poised to accelerate that transformation. In today’s dynamic healthcare industry, providers are looking for new ways to improve patient care. That is why Change Healthcare will be working with Google Cloud to introduce innovative technologies and solutions to address the challenges healthcare providers face both today and in the future.” —Erkan Akyuz, Executive Vice President and President for Imaging, Workflow & Care Solutions, Change Healthcare

For partners like Kanteron Systems, GCP is providing a path to deployment at scale. Kanteron is leveraging their expertise in multimodality medical imaging and clinical genomics, using our artificial intelligence and cloud capabilities to help radiologists, pathologists, surgeons and oncologists collaborate by sharing and visualizing patient data with the relevant clinical context.

“Our focus is crystal clear: help clinicians deliver the best possible care. Leveraging Google Cloud’s healthcare-focused platform helps us get to this goal faster.” —Jorge Cortell, Founder and CEO, Kanteron Systems

Partners like Ambra Health, lifeIMAGE and Nautilus Medical are growing their workflow-driven, medical image sharing networks globally by leveraging Google Cloud. The partnership enables care coordination and collaboration on novel insights across multiple entities such as hospitals, imaging centers, patients and labs.

“In a world with 400 petabytes of imaging data produced annually, we plan to leverage Google Cloud’s global footprint to help our customers in a highly-regulated and life-critical space to perform at scale and manage IT risk effectively.” —Matthew A. Michela, CEO, lifeIMAGE

Partners like Zebra Medical Vision are using TensorFlow to train neural networks on existing radiology scans and create new models that aim to help clinicians detect specific conditions. These models are run using Cloud Machine Learning Engine to analyze new scans and deliver insights to hospitals to help inform clinical decisions at scale. Customers like Imagia are using machine learning APIs to accelerate AI-first multi-institutional research in precision medicine and deliver radiomics biomarkers for personalized healthcare. Companies like Arterys are using TensorFlow to generate heart measurements that may help cardiologists and radiologists work more effectively by automating some of the more repetitive, manual tasks, allowing physicians spend more time focusing on their patients.

Enterprise imaging IT-focused DICOM Systems is using Google Cloud to offer their customers the option of cloud storage. 

"The imaging industry typically upgrades or replaces their PACS solution every five to eight years. This is a pain for the hospital's IT department. We are starting to see healthcare customers recognize the power of the cloud—and how to leverage the cloud as a core part of their IT strategy." — Dmitriy Tochilnik, President and CTO, Dicom Systems

Client Outlook, the maker of eUnity, is providing an imaging viewer which can visualize radiology images stored on-premise or in the cloud. By integrating with Zebra Medical Vision’s AI1 platform, Client Outlook surfaces imaging-based measurements such as bone density and coronary calcium, helping augment radiology workflows.

“There is a need in the market for tools that help physicians be more effective in translating diagnostic images into clinical insights. We see our product as a platform serving these tools to the right user in the right context. With Google Cloud, we aim to use the emerging ecosystem of intelligent solutions to make sure that our users have the right tools for the job.” — Steve Rankin, CEO, Client Outlook


This week we’ll be at RSNA (Booth 8161), where you can learn more and meet some of our ecosystem partners. We’ll demo some of our work as well as host a corporate symposium featuring a panel discussion on the role of machine intelligence in the future of radiology (RSVP here). We’d love to learn how we can work with you to transform healthcare.

Google Cloud at HIMSS: engaging with the healthcare and health IT community

At Google Cloud, we’re working closely with the healthcare industry to provide the technology and tools that help create better patient experiences, empower care teams to work together and accelerate research. We're focused on supporting the digital transformation of our healthcare customers through data management at scale and advancements in machine learning for timely and actionable insights.

Next week at the HIMSS Health IT Conference, we're demonstrating the latest innovations in smart data, digital health, APIs, machine learning and real-time communications from Google Cloud, Research, Search, DeepMind and Verily. Together, we offer solutions that help enable hospital and health IT customers to tackle the rapidly evolving and long standing challenges facing the healthcare industry. Here’s a preview of the Google Cloud customers and partners who are joining us at HIMSS.

For customers like the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) at the University of Colorado Denver, trust and security are paramount. CCPM has worked closely with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) team to securely manage and analyze a complicated data set to identify  genetic patterns across a wide range of diseases and reveal new treatment options based on a patient’s unique DNA.

And the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has used Google Genomics for years to combine the power, security features and scale of GCP with the Broad Institute’s expertise in scientific analysis.

“At the Broad Institute we are committed to driving the pace of innovation through sharing and collaboration. Google Cloud Platform has profoundly transformed the way we build teams and conduct science and has accelerated our research,"  William Mayo, Chief Information Officer at Broad Institute told us.

To continue to offer these and other healthcare customers the tools they need, today we’re announcing support for the HL7 FHIR Foundation to help the developer community advance data interoperability efforts. The FHIR open standard defines a modern, web API-based approach to communicating healthcare data, making it easier to securely communicate across the healthcare ecosystem including hospitals, labs, applications and research studies.

"Google Cloud Platform’s commitment to support the ongoing activities of the FHIR community will help advance our goal of global health data interoperability. The future of health computing is clearly in the cloud, and our joint effort will serve to accelerate this transition," said Grahame Grieve, Principal at Health Intersections, FHIR Product Lead

Beyond open source, we're committed to supporting a thriving ecosystem of partners whose solutions enable customers to improve patient care across the industry.

We’ve seen great success for our customers in collaboration with Kinvey, which launched its HIPAA-compliant digital health platform on GCP to leverage our cloud infrastructure and integrate its capabilities with our machine learning and analytics services.  

“In the past year, we’ve seen numerous organizations in healthcare, from institutions like Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health that are building apps to transform care, education and research, and startups like iTether and TempTraq that are driving innovative new solutions, turn to GCP to accelerate their journey to a new patient-centric world,” said Sravish Sridhar, CEO of Kinvey.

We’ve also published a new guide for HIPAA compliance on GCP, which describes our approach to data security on GCP and provides best-practice guidance on how to securely bring healthcare workloads to the cloud.

Stop by our booth at HIMSS to hear more about how we’re working with the healthcare industry across Google. We would love to learn how we can engage with you on your next big idea to positively transform healthcare.

Google Cloud at HIMSS: engaging with the healthcare and health IT community

At Google Cloud, we’re working closely with the healthcare industry to provide the technology and tools that help create better patient experiences, empower care teams to work together and accelerate research. We're focused on supporting the digital transformation of our healthcare customers through data management at scale and advancements in machine learning for timely and actionable insights.

Next week at the HIMSS Health IT Conference, we're demonstrating the latest innovations in smart data, digital health, APIs, machine learning and real-time communications from Google Cloud, Research, Search, DeepMind and Verily. Together, we offer solutions that help enable hospital and health IT customers to tackle the rapidly evolving and long standing challenges facing the healthcare industry. Here’s a preview of the Google Cloud customers and partners who are joining us at HIMSS.

For customers like the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) at the University of Colorado Denver, trust and security are paramount. CCPM has worked closely with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) team to securely manage and analyze a complicated data set to identify  genetic patterns across a wide range of diseases and reveal new treatment options based on a patient’s unique DNA.

And the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has used Google Genomics for years to combine the power, security features and scale of GCP with the Broad Institute’s expertise in scientific analysis.

“At the Broad Institute we are committed to driving the pace of innovation through sharing and collaboration. Google Cloud Platform has profoundly transformed the way we build teams and conduct science and has accelerated our research,"  William Mayo, Chief Information Officer at Broad Institute told us.

To continue to offer these and other healthcare customers the tools they need, today we’re announcing support for the HL7 FHIR Foundation to help the developer community advance data interoperability efforts. The FHIR open standard defines a modern, web API-based approach to communicating healthcare data, making it easier to securely communicate across the healthcare ecosystem including hospitals, labs, applications and research studies.

"Google Cloud Platform’s commitment to support the ongoing activities of the FHIR community will help advance our goal of global health data interoperability. The future of health computing is clearly in the cloud, and our joint effort will serve to accelerate this transition," said Grahame Grieve, Principal at Health Intersections, FHIR Product Lead

Beyond open source, we're committed to supporting a thriving ecosystem of partners whose solutions enable customers to improve patient care across the industry.

We’ve seen great success for our customers in collaboration with Kinvey, which launched its HIPAA-compliant digital health platform on GCP to leverage our cloud infrastructure and integrate its capabilities with our machine learning and analytics services.  

“In the past year, we’ve seen numerous organizations in healthcare, from institutions like Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health that are building apps to transform care, education and research, and startups like iTether and TempTraq that are driving innovative new solutions, turn to GCP to accelerate their journey to a new patient-centric world,” said Sravish Sridhar, CEO of Kinvey.

We’ve also published a new guide for HIPAA compliance on GCP, which describes our approach to data security on GCP and provides best-practice guidance on how to securely bring healthcare workloads to the cloud.

Stop by our booth at HIMSS to hear more about how we’re working with the healthcare industry across Google. We would love to learn how we can engage with you on your next big idea to positively transform healthcare.

Google Cloud at HIMSS: engaging with the healthcare and health IT community

At Google Cloud, we’re working closely with the healthcare industry to provide the technology and tools that help create better patient experiences, empower care teams to work together and accelerate research. We're focused on supporting the digital transformation of our healthcare customers through data management at scale and advancements in machine learning for timely and actionable insights.

Next week at the HIMSS Health IT Conference, we're demonstrating the latest innovations in smart data, digital health, APIs, machine learning and real-time communications from Google Cloud, Research, Search, DeepMind and Verily. Together, we offer solutions that help enable hospital and health IT customers to tackle the rapidly evolving and long standing challenges facing the healthcare industry. Here’s a preview of the Google Cloud customers and partners who are joining us at HIMSS.

For customers like the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) at the University of Colorado Denver, trust and security are paramount. CCPM has worked closely with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) team to securely manage and analyze a complicated data set to identify  genetic patterns across a wide range of diseases and reveal new treatment options based on a patient’s unique DNA.

And the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has used Google Genomics for years to combine the power, security features and scale of GCP with the Broad Institute’s expertise in scientific analysis.

“At the Broad Institute we are committed to driving the pace of innovation through sharing and collaboration. Google Cloud Platform has profoundly transformed the way we build teams and conduct science and has accelerated our research,"  William Mayo, Chief Information Officer at Broad Institute told us.

To continue to offer these and other healthcare customers the tools they need, today we’re announcing support for the HL7 FHIR Foundation to help the developer community advance data interoperability efforts. The FHIR open standard defines a modern, web API-based approach to communicating healthcare data, making it easier to securely communicate across the healthcare ecosystem including hospitals, labs, applications and research studies.

"Google Cloud Platform’s commitment to support the ongoing activities of the FHIR community will help advance our goal of global health data interoperability. The future of health computing is clearly in the cloud, and our joint effort will serve to accelerate this transition," said Grahame Grieve, Principal at Health Intersections, FHIR Product Lead

Beyond open source, we're committed to supporting a thriving ecosystem of partners whose solutions enable customers to improve patient care across the industry.

We’ve seen great success for our customers in collaboration with Kinvey, which launched its HIPAA-compliant digital health platform on GCP to leverage our cloud infrastructure and integrate its capabilities with our machine learning and analytics services.  

“In the past year, we’ve seen numerous organizations in healthcare, from institutions like Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health that are building apps to transform care, education and research, and startups like iTether and TempTraq that are driving innovative new solutions, turn to GCP to accelerate their journey to a new patient-centric world,” said Sravish Sridhar, CEO of Kinvey.

We’ve also published a new guide for HIPAA compliance on GCP, which describes our approach to data security on GCP and provides best-practice guidance on how to securely bring healthcare workloads to the cloud.

Stop by our booth at HIMSS to hear more about how we’re working with the healthcare industry across Google. We would love to learn how we can engage with you on your next big idea to positively transform healthcare.