Google Cloud has launched a healthcare-specific AI agent with read-only integrations for Epic and Oracle Health EHRs, allowing healthcare organizations to retrieve patient information and coordinate clinical and administrative workflows.
The company unveiled Gemini for healthcare Nov. 10, introducing an AI platform designed to connect clinical, operational and administrative systems and execute multistep workflows with human oversight. The platform is initially available in preview.
The platform connects to Epic through open.epic APIs and Oracle Health through Ignite APIs for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. The integrations allow authorized users to retrieve patient information, including active medical conditions, medications and recent laboratory results, without writing information back to the EHR.
Google Cloud said additional connectivity with NextGen Healthcare is in development, with availability expected in the coming months.
Beyond EHR integration, Gemini for healthcare is designed to support medical record synthesis, appointment preparation, insurance coverage reviews and payer benefit determinations. The platform also connects with healthcare technology companies, including Optum, Suki, InterSystems and Verato, to support clinical and administrative workflows.
Several major health systems are participating in the launch, including Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health and Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare.
HCA Healthcare is exploring how the technology could synthesize patient information from multiple EHR systems and care settings to give clinicians a more complete picture of patients’ medical histories.
“Through our work with Google Cloud, we’re exploring how Gemini can interpret and synthesize complex patient information from multiple electronic health record systems and care settings, connecting data from different sources to give clinicians a more complete and cohesive understanding of a patient’s medical history,” Michael Schlosser, MD, executive vice president and chief clinical officer at HCA Healthcare, said in the news release.
Other organizations involved in the launch include Boston-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health, Optum and Stanford School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif.
Google Cloud said the platform includes role-based access controls, audit logging and source citations intended to help healthcare organizations oversee AI activity. It is designed to support HIPAA compliance, and the company said customer data will not be used to train its foundation models.
The platform also supports models from Google, Anthropic and OpenAI. To help organizations manage costs, it routes high-volume administrative tasks to faster, lower-cost models and reserves high-reasoning models for complex clinical and operational analysis.
Gemini for healthcare will be available to Gemini Enterprise Standard and Gemini Enterprise Plus customers. Google Cloud said organizations will be able to choose between per-user subscriptions and pay-as-you-go pricing.
