“Google’s cloud arm on Thursday unveiled a new product designed to aggregate and standardize data for health and life sciences organizations.”
“The tool, dubbed Google Cloud’s “healthcare data engine,” joins a growing market for tools that technology companies are launching aligned with the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard, better known as FHIR…”
“Microsoft Corp., which also released a tool that aggregates and stores health data using FHIR through its Azure cloud arm in 2019, wrote to CMS and ONC when their regulations for voice support were proposed. Apple, which offers its own tool that allows patients to download health data from hospitals and clinics through FHIR-based APIs, also supported the rules.”
“Google’s latest cloud tool, which launched Thursday as a private preview, aggregates data from medical records, claims and clinical trials and maps it to the FHIR format. It is built on the Google Cloud Healthcare API, an application programming interface that was released to the public last year and is designed to link healthcare data with third-party applications…” Read the full article here.
Source: Google launches a set of tools to add and map data to the FHIR standard – By Grover Roach, July 22, 2021. Newsblock.