In the battle for healthcare cloud services, Google and Amazon are both advertising a feature to help medical systems and biotech companies aggregate different data.
On Thursday, Google announced that it has developed a healthcare data engine to help healthcare companies aggregate data from medical records, claims, clinical trials and research. By integrating this information in a standardized format, healthcare companies can more easily analyze this data and develop machine learning tools.
The healthcare data engine stores patient data in FHIR format, a standard supported by interoperability rules.Google developed it based on a collaboration with Mayo Clinic, which reached a 10-year partnership with Google earlier this year Hope to build an “artificial intelligence factory”.
Mayo Clinic vice president of information technology Jim Buntrock said in a press release that the health system uses Google’s cloud services to build a “head-up display” for the ICU and help the care team focus on where it is most needed. The Indiana University Health Center is also using Google’s healthcare data engine.
A few months ago, Amazon announced a similar feature, It is called the Amazon Health Lake. Just a few days before Google announced the news, the company said it would generally provide the service, and pointed out that it has introduced Rush University Medical Center and Cortica to users.
At the same time, Google’s health care data engine function is available through private preview, which means it is ready for customer testing, but it is not yet supported. Google did not share a timeline of when it will be more widely available.
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