This week, Redox, a leader in healthcare interoperability, and Google Cloud, announced a partnership with the aim of simplifying the interoperability of healthcare data to enable organizations to make faster and better decisions.
Why it's Notable:
Redox is an EHR integration company providing a platform for providers, payers, and products to connect to health records and other health data sources, through a single-secure API endpoint. Through this partnership, Redox will replicate its platform on Google Cloud, offering Google Cloud customers a full range of Redox products, services and experiences. By introducing healthcare data from legacy systems, organizations can build a longitudinal view, better serving their patients and members.
The information needed by healthcare systems is often siloed across multiple sources. Additionally, it is often difficult to access, extract and normalize data, as it may be buried within patient records or spread across multiple databases. Redox and Google Cloud’s single cloud-based system will support health systems to utilize legacy health data up to 80% faster than other solutions, according to reports.
Industry Implications:
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Cures Act Final Rule requires that patients have secure access to their electronic health data. Healthcare organizations also need to convert data from multiple sources and transform legacy standards like HL7v2, CDA, X12, and/or DICOM into Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). Redox Healthcare Integration can integrate these standards, and leverage existing provider integration and libraries, making access to data quicker and easier.
The healthcare industry is continuously trying to simplify the integration of healthcare data, looking for ways to ingest, integrate, and harmonize data across all sources, with BigTech looking to facilitate this integration. This partnership with Redox follows Google Cloud’s previous partnerships with CipherHealth, through SADA, as well as Health-ISAC. The partnership with Redox will further increase Google Cloud’s ability to compete with companies such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Apple Health Network, many of which have already established partnerships in healthcare and analytics.