LAS VEGAS, U.S.: As more technical areas of dentistry become digitalized, so too is the way in which patient data is used. Looking to address some of the interoperability challenges of health care data, Google has unveiled its new Cloud Healthcare application programming interface (API) at the 2018 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual conference and exhibition, held from March 5 to 9. The API enables clients to capture and manage multiple types of medical data on one platform.
Data analyst company GlobalData believes the new API provides a scalable infrastructure solution and lets customers use data for analytics and machine learning on the cloud. Designed to streamline digital transformations and improve health outcomes, the tool will reportedly provide health care organizations with faster access to analytics and other technologies. This can then be used to process information more effectively and efficiently than in an analog environment.
According to digital industries analyst at GlobalData Amy Larsen DeCarlo, Google is already actively engaged with many industry organizations, but this tool may help incentivize health care organizations to undergo major digitalization projects that involve multiple data types, including DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine), HL7 (Health Level 7) and FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standards.
“With extensive experience in managing high volumes of data, the tech giant is well positioned to support health care clients dealing with vexing challenges associated with digitalization and interoperability,” said DeCarlo.
However, despite Google making significant headway in the sector with an expanding customer list that includes Cleveland Clinic, Rush University Medical Center and the Chilean Health Ministry, in a highly fragmented sector such as health care, the success of any new program depends on how well it is designed and whether it is easy for health care organizations to use.
“While Google is certainly well positioned to serve the health care organizations’ data management needs, it is bound to face some very well-resourced rivals including AWS, IBM and Microsoft that are also making significant inroads into the health care sector,” said DeCarlo.
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