Meditech, Google Health Partner on EHR Search, Discovery Tools
Electronic health record vendor Meditech and Google Health announced at HIMSS22 that they are partnering to pilot a solution that will enable the use of Google Health’s search and summarization capabilities within Meditech’s Expanse EHR.
The companies said this would pull forward discrete information from legacy and disparate systems and provide a longitudinal view of a patient's health history.
Google Health said its intelligent summarization extracts information from different parts of the patient record to produce a summary of a patient’s health conditions. Clinicians can then explore a deep-dive view of critical information related to treating and monitoring said conditions, including lab results, vitals and medications.
Meditech will use Google Health’s tools to create a longitudinal health data layer, which unites data from different sources and harmonizes it into a standard FHIR format designed specifically for clinician tools.
“This is the first step in a long-term collaboration between Meditech and Google Health,” said Meditech Executive Vice President and COO Helen Waters, in a statement. “Meditiech has long focused on helping our customers achieve true integration across the care continuum. But we’re also well aware that too much data can overburden clinicians, which is why we design our own solutions with personalized views of the most important information clinicians want to see. Our partnership with Google Health builds upon this mission, providing us with a unique opportunity to combine our expertise to better solve the information burden our customers face. By augmenting the power of Expanse with Google’s search and summarization abilities, we’re advancing interoperable healthcare data exchange, building an EHR platform for the future, and continuing our mission to propel data liquidity and support the future of digital health ecosystems.”
“Google Health and Meditech have a shared goal of supporting care teams with a complete view of the patient record,”' said Paul Muret, vice president and general manager of Care Studio, Google Health, in a statement. “By combining our complementary areas of expertise, we can help health systems overcome challenges associated with data silos and enable care teams with the tools they need to provide the best possible care and outcomes for patients.”
