Google Cloud (GCP) Healthcare API Service
A Google Cloud (GCP) Healthcare API Service is a cloud-based healthcare API that is a Google API service.
- Context:
- It can facilitate the storage and access of healthcare data in Google Cloud, and bridges the gap between existing care systems and applications hosted on Google Cloud.
- It can allow easy and standardized data exchange between healthcare applications and solutions built on Google Cloud.
- It can support popular healthcare data standards such as HL7 FHIR, HL7v2, and DICOM.
- It can be composed of:
- Google Healthcare Natural Language API, a Healthcare natural language API.
- Cloud Healthcare API FHIR: Provides tools for storing and retrieving healthcare data in FHIR format.
- Cloud Healthcare API DICOM: Enables storing and managing medical imaging data in the DICOM format.
- Cloud Healthcare API HL7v2: Facilitates ingestion, creation, and retrieval of HL7v2 messages.
- It can provide a fully managed, highly scalable, enterprise-grade development environment for building clinical and analytics solutions securely on Google Cloud.
- It can include value-added capabilities, such as automated DICOM and FHIR de-identification.
- It can provide a pathway to intelligent analytics and machine learning capabilities in Google Cloud with pre-built connectors for streaming data processing in Dataflow, scalable analytics with BigQuery, and machine learning with Vertex AI.
- It can support HIPAA compliance and is in scope for Google Cloud’s ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, and ISO/IEC 27018 certifications.
- It can facilitate actionable insights on data in FHIR format, HL7v2 messages, and DICOM data.
- It can be used to:
- Store and manage healthcare data in a FHIR store within Google Cloud.
- Ingest, create, and retrieve HL7v2 messages via a HL7v2 store in Google Cloud.
- Store, manage, and retrieve DICOM images and metadata in a DICOM store within Google Cloud.
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- Example(s):
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- Counter-Example(s):
- Azure Health Data APIs within Microsoft Azure.
- IBM Watson Health APIs within IBM Cloud.
- See: Google Cloud Console, Google Healthcare.
References
2023
- https://cloud.google.com/healthcare-api/docs#docs
- The Cloud Healthcare API provides a managed solution for storing and accessing healthcare data in Google Cloud, providing a critical bridge between existing care systems and applications hosted on Google Cloud.
2023
- https://cloud.google.com/healthcare-api
- QUOTE: Cloud Healthcare API allows easy and standardized data exchange between healthcare applications and solutions built on Google Cloud. With support for popular healthcare data standards such as HL7® FHIR®, HL7® v2, and DICOM®, the Cloud Healthcare API provides a fully managed, highly scalable, enterprise-grade development environment for building clinical and analytics solutions securely on Google Cloud. The Cloud Healthcare API also includes additional value-added capabilities, such as automated DICOM and FHIR de-identification to better prepare data for these solutions.
Cloud Healthcare API provides a pathway to intelligent analytics and machine learning capabilities in Google Cloud with pre-built connectors for streaming data processing in Dataflow, scalable analytics with BigQuery, and machine learning with Vertex AI.
The Cloud Healthcare API is backed by Google Cloud’s privacy and security features, supports HIPAA compliance, and is in scope for Google Cloud’s ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, and ISO/IEC 27018 certifications. In addition, Google Cloud is HITRUST CSF certified.
- Store, manage and gain actionable insights on your data in FHIR format: Build your primary and secondary clinical data repositories using any of the major versions of the FHIR standard (R4, STU3, and DSTU2). Leverage the Cloud Healthcare API for highly performant and scalable data storage, and access to your FHIR data via fully managed REST APIs.
Accelerate your solution development on FHIR by importing your existing FHIR data into the Cloud Healthcare API from Cloud Storage. Transform your data from CSV/HL7v2 formats into FHIR format using Cloud Data Fusion plugins and manage it in the Cloud Healthcare API.
Develop advanced analytics solutions leveraging SQL-on-FHIR capabilities by exporting FHIR data (streaming and batch) from the Cloud Healthcare API to BigQuery.
- Ingest, create, and retrieve your HL7v2 messages: Integrate your existing healthcare applications with the Cloud Healthcare API’s open source MLLP adapter to ingest or create HL7v2 messages. Interact with your HL7v2 messages via fully managed REST APIs and in web-friendly JSON format.
Keep your cloud-based clinical data repositories in sync with other healthcare applications via the Cloud Healthcare API’s HL7v2 Import and Export capabilities.
- Store and manage your DICOM data: Integrate your existing imaging devices and PACS solutions with the Cloud Healthcare API’s open source DICOMweb endpoint or import your data directly into the Cloud Healthcare API from Cloud Storage. P> Manage your DICOM data using the fully managed REST APIs in a web-friendly JSON format. Once your data is in the Cloud Healthcare API, you can combine it with data in other formats and perform analytics and machine learning on the larger datasets.
- Store, manage and gain actionable insights on your data in FHIR format: Build your primary and secondary clinical data repositories using any of the major versions of the FHIR standard (R4, STU3, and DSTU2). Leverage the Cloud Healthcare API for highly performant and scalable data storage, and access to your FHIR data via fully managed REST APIs.
- QUOTE: Cloud Healthcare API allows easy and standardized data exchange between healthcare applications and solutions built on Google Cloud. With support for popular healthcare data standards such as HL7® FHIR®, HL7® v2, and DICOM®, the Cloud Healthcare API provides a fully managed, highly scalable, enterprise-grade development environment for building clinical and analytics solutions securely on Google Cloud. The Cloud Healthcare API also includes additional value-added capabilities, such as automated DICOM and FHIR de-identification to better prepare data for these solutions.
2023
- https://cloud.google.com/healthcare-api/docs/concepts/dicom
- QUOTE: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is an international standard used for medical images such as X-rays, MRIs, ultrasounds, and other medical imaging modalities.
The Cloud Healthcare API provides operations for reading DICOM instances, studies, and series that are consistent with the DICOMweb standard, and supports the DICOM DIMSE C-STORE operation using an open source adapter.
- QUOTE: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is an international standard used for medical images such as X-rays, MRIs, ultrasounds, and other medical imaging modalities.
2023
- https://cloud.google.com/healthcare-api/docs/concepts/fhir
- QUOTE: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a healthcare data standard with an application programming interface (API) for representing and exchanging electronic health records (EHR). FHIR is an information network that lets you link data across systems and a communication network that lets you exchange data between systems.
- FHIR includes the following:
- An HTTP-based RESTful protocol
- Data representation that uses JSON, XML, and RDF
- https://cloud.google.com/healthcare-api/docs/concepts/hl7v2
- QUOTE: Health Level Seven International Version 2 (HL7v2) is a clinical messaging format that provides data about events that occur inside an organization.
See the HL7 Version 2 Product Suite documentation for more details on HL7v2.
- HL7v2 stores: An HL7v2 store is a data store that resides within a dataset. HL7v2 stores hold HL7v2 messages.
- QUOTE: Health Level Seven International Version 2 (HL7v2) is a clinical messaging format that provides data about events that occur inside an organization.