Google said recently that ifGoogle Healthcare API The technology, which can be widely used in the U.S. healthcare system, can help patients access their health information more easily through third-party applications.

Starting Monday, healthcare providers can use the new Google healthcare API to build new systems to translate and transform data stored in different types of systems, from imaging systems to medical record software.

while being represented in the document Healthcare API storing and accessing medical data in the Google Cloud provides an important bridge of communication for existing medical systems and applications currently hosted in the Google Cloud. But google says customers don't need to store data in Google Cloud.

The Google Cloud product manager who docked the doctor Joe Corkery, and a post co-authored by google's director of health solutions Aashima Gupta may be a common view of data from different sources for health systems

Joe Corkery said the COVID-19 pandemic again showed why interoperability of health data was important. It can help support efforts already under way, such as the new application of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, aimed at sharing information on electronic health records with the public health sector. The application will be launched in May.

"COVID-19 does highlight the importance of interoperability of health data ," Gupta said online. It's also very important from a patient's point of view ."