The news: At the HIMSS conference this week, Google Health announced a partnership to integrate Googles Care Studio with Meditechs electronic health record (EHR) platform, per a Google blog post. <\/p>\n
How does Googles Care Studio work? It essentially serves as a clinical search tool that lets clinicians quickly access patient information in their personal health record. <\/p>\n
For example, providers can type a word like diabetes or hemoglobin into the Care Studio search bar, and the tool will pull up all relevant patient info across the health systems multiple clinical softwares.<\/p>\n
Quick access to a patients clinical information could be handy for physicians already overburdened with paperwork, since patient information is often buried across multiple platforms. Some hospitals have a patients MRI results and medical history on two different softwares requiring separate logins, for instance. Toggling between both takes valuable time away from patient care. <\/p>\n
Heres what the partnership means for Google: Its Care Studio has had one-off partnerships with health systems, but partnering with Meditech means reaching multiple new hospital clients. <\/p>\n
Last year, Googles Care Studio inked a deal with major health system Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIMDC) to let clinicians try the tech giants clinical search tools. <\/p>\n
BIMDC wasnt its first health system-tie up, though.<\/p>\n
Now, the expanded Meditech partnership means Google will eventually get its Care Studio in the hands of physicians at various new health systems: Meditech boasts over 623 hospital clients, per its website. <\/p>\n
Whats next? If Care Studios partnership is a hit with Meditechs hospital clients, it would be a jumpstart to Google partnering with larger EHR vendors like Epic and Oracles Cerner. <\/p>\n
That would help Googles Care Studio scale more rapidly than with a Meditech partnership alone:<\/p>\n
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