Google has been making headway in the healthcare industry through partnerships with hospitals and health systems.
Here are hospitals and health systems that have announced partnerships or collaborations with the tech giant in 2022:
- Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health is moving its Epic EHR system to Google Cloud.
- Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health has teamed up with Google Cloud to to use data and analytics to improve its value-based care and to create a "digital front door" app for its health plan members.
- Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare has partnered with Google Cloud on data-powered projects to improve health equity, patient flow and value-based care across the health system. Under the partnership, Hartford will leverage Google Cloud's Healthcare Data Engine, artificial intelligence and machine learning to make its healthcare data more accessible and actionable.
- Google Cloud partnered with Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health and Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic on data-powered projects to improve health equity, patient flow and value-based care.
- Google Cloud unveiled a new software program that uses artificial intelligence for medical imaging diagnostics and has already begun collaborating with Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health to improve cancer detection. Hackensack Meridian Health is starting to use Google's software to de-identify massive amounts of imaging data and build AI algorithms to predict metastasis in patients with prostate cancer.
- New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health selected Google as its preferred cloud provider to expand its digital and artificial intelligence capabilities.
- Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic will use an artificial intelligence natural language processing tool from Google to better track and analyze language-based information in patients' EHRs.
- Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic launched a 20-week program to get healthcare artificial intelligence startups prepared to enter the market. The program, called Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate, gives startups access to Mayo Clinic experts with a focus on AI model validation and clinical readiness. Participants will also receive guidance from technology experts at Google and Epic.