Google Cloud this week announced a new deal with Epic, with the two IT giants working together to help health systems move clinical data to the cloud. One major Epic customer, Hackensack Meridian Health, said it plans to move its electronic health record workload to a hosted environment.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
According to Hackensack Meridian, the goal is faster innovation, greater clinical efficiency, and stronger information security.
“We hope running Epic on Google Cloud will be simpler for our developers and IT,” said Kash Patel, director of digital information for the New Jersey health system. will allow them to focus more on discovering innovative ways to improve patient care.” statement.
“Having everything with Google Cloud presents a huge opportunity for discovery,” he said. “For example, data from our AI Avatar for natural language processing will be in Google Cloud, ready for us to ask questions. This will speed up our work and help with information. more accessible.”
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
Epic workloads have been trending to the cloud at several major health systems in recent years. In July 2021, Wellforce, now known as Tufts Medicine, announced plans to migrate its Epic infrastructure to AWS. By May of the following year, the health system had announced success in migrating more than 40 different applications and its Epic EHR to the cloud.
Meanwhile, Google has been working with other EHR providers for a while. In 2019, Meditech announced that their Expanse platform would be made available through Google Cloud, and since then, the company has integrated Google search and summary tools into its EHR.
Concurrent with its Epic announcement (which represents something of a change for the EHR giants of Verona, Wisconsin), Google Cloud also announced another project this week with Hackensack Meridian – as well as Lifepoint Health and other healthcare organizations: Healthcare Data Accelerator to help providers manage cases around health equity, patient flow, and value-based care .
The HDE Accelerator, scheduled to launch in 2023, provides infrastructure deployment configurations, BigQuery data models, and Looker dashboard templates to assist healthcare organizations as they address these fundamental challenges.
“These accelerators, developed in collaboration with healthcare organizations, will tackle the problem,” said Aashima Gupta, global director of Healthcare Strategy and Solutions at Google Cloud. a host of industry pain points, and they will unlock the truly transformative power of interoperable longitudinal patient records.” .
ON PROFILE
“Hackensack Meridian Health is leading two of the major transformations taking place across the industry: building a secure foundation for digital infrastructure, and putting data and artificial intelligence to work for it. patients,” Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, said in a statement about that health system. Magnificent migration.
Hackensack Meridian CEO Robert C. Garrett added: “Our innovation mission requires accessible, innovative technology.” “With Epic EHR on Google Cloud, we’ll be able to innovate faster and benefit from a more secure and efficient cloud environment.”
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