Google Cloud Healthcare API

2020: Exit to global market

At the beginning of December, 2020 Google released on global market of API for transfer of medical data between any systems. A set of the solutions Google Cloud Healthcare is designed to help the organizations of health care to manage more effectively data of patients even when using the outdated systems.

According to the new law to the USA, bodies of health care should provide an information access about patients through the application programming interfaces. API interfaces provide a convenient method of data exchange between the remote systems that simplifies to doctors access to necessary and important information.

Google provided API for transfer of medical data between any systems

However many organizations store data in the outdated systems which were created before development of modern solutions on the basis of API. As a result observance of new requirements can demand extensive and expensive modifications of the code. Google hopes to solve this problem with the help of a new solution package.

The Google Cloud Healthcare program separates a problem of upgrade of API into three main parts. This packet allows to estimate a system status, to plan necessary steps for observance of regulatory requirements and, at last, "increase their availability for service".

The packet includes the HealthAPIx Accelerator set which reduces the code amount necessary for accomplishment of a task. It gives to developers access to the ready API templates and examples of implementation. Google also included a number of additional resources, including analytics tools which allow developers to collect data on the API interfaces.

Also enters a new solution package of Google so-called "tool kit for interaction". These tools provide access to "the guides, the isolated programs and other resources which will help to accelerate implementation of the new systems and to optimize them according to such standards as FHIR R4".^[1]

2019: Announcement of a product

At the beginning of April, 2019 Google released the Cloud Healthcare API functions which, according to in the company, will help to improve implementation of machine learning on the basis of medical data.

Through new API the cloud applicaions connected to Google Cloud Platform are capable to process medical data which are created using different standards. Data are placed in a cloud of Google for their cleaning (ensuring coordination and correctness of values in a data set), the analysis and the subsequent use in machine learning.

Google released Cloud Healthcare API for interaction of different standards of medical data

Cloud Healthcare API are intended for receiving and  administration  of state-of-health data of health of key formats, such as DICOM  (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine), FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) and   HL7 v2 (Health Level Seven International).

For example, API support the DICOMweb standard thanks to what interaction of the medical equipment, PACS systems and preview players of medical pictures is provided.

Our main objective which we pursue with Cloud Healthcare API is in increasing compatibility of the isolated databases given by destruction which exist in the operating health care systems. API allows medical institutions to receive and manage key data and it is better to understand these data with the help of analytics and machine learning in real time — the head on development Ilia Tulchinsky and the development director of products Joe Corkery in division of Google Cloud wrote.

Google works with  a number of partners and  clients (among them — Stanford school of medicine) over overcoming the main problems connected with  mutual compatibility and  data availability in  the health care industry.^[2]

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