Google Launches Cloud Healthcare API To Address Interoperability Conundrum

Google Healthcare API recently launched a new cloud application programming interface (API) that seeks to address issues with interoperability within the health care industry. The tool, Cloud Healthcare API, collects various types of medical data using the cloud, and allows health care provider organizations and clinical professionals to access and manage that data.

Google anticipates that this move will provide provider organizations motivation to begin launching analytics and machine-learning projects in the cloud, allowing data to be used in order to identify patterns that can help to predict and improve health outcomes for consumers. Machine learning has already become . . .