Google Health, the tech giant's healthcare division, is partnering with health systems across the country to explore the use of its technology in a healthcare setting.
Google plans to use its tech expertise to improve healthcare in partnership with providers.
Here are five health systems that have partnered with Google Health:
- St. Louis-based Ascension: Google Health's clinical software Care Studio, was born out of a partnership between Google and Ascension. Ascension partnered with Google Health to pilot an electronic health record search tool that pulls patient electronic health records into an interface to help clinicians more easily find useful information.
- Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: The health system joined Ascension in 2021 to pilot the Care Studio software. The tool helps clinicians login and navigate each data system individually to find the information they need by typing a word, abbreviation or phrase into the Care Studio search bar. The tool then brings up relevant information within their patient's medical record from across multiple sources, saving clinicians time by showing a unified view of patients' vitals, labs, medications and notes.
- Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic: In 2019, the health system signed a 10-year strategic partnership with Google focused on innovation and cloud computing. Together, Mayo and Google are working to research and build AI tools and algorithms to improve patient care.
- Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine: Google and Northwestern Medicine teamed up in 2021 to develop an artificial intelligence tool to support clinician work by triaging mammography patients. The AI tool is expected to detect signs of breast cancer in mammograms at a similar accuracy as clinicians. It is also expected to alleviate the anxiety associated with patients having to experience long wait times for results. The AI tool will analyze mammogram images and flag potential patients who may need more imaging to confirm a diagnosis. A clinician will review the flags and if the clinician agrees, they will contact the patient for more mammograms.
- Stanford (Calif.) Medicine: The health system partnered with Google to use Google's cloud computing service Google Genomics to store and analyze its genomic datasets. The health system plans to use the data to improve and target cancer treatments for patients and diagnose rare, genetic-caused diseases in children. It also seeks to use the analysis for more preventative medicine.