Google has a whole bunch of products/tools in the healthcare space, and it seems like their contribution there is only growing. I've been working with FHIR/EHR adjacent tooling lately for a personal project, and a good number of both open source resources and SAAS products I've seen have been from Google.
More broadly, all big 3 cloud providers (Azure, AWS, and Google) have offerings for FHIR data storage and API access, as well as common NLP based healthcare data analysis workflows. Many of these seem relatively new, or as if they have had a lot of recent attention focused on them. I'm definitely interested in how/why these companies (as well as some other VC funded ones, like Medplum), are entering this space with products that are not directly sellable, but are rather things that other tools would have to build upon. It seems like AWS works directly with end-customers to use their APIs to build products, but I'm not sure what Azure and Google are doing.
This one's probably too complex for my use case, but I thought the concept looked very neat and wanted to share.
Ultimately this is just an orchestration tool for publishing HL7v2 messages. You have to write your own pathways and segments, or push preconfigured HL7v2 messages. Take a look at the dashboard, you'll see what I mean[1].
Fairly sure they built this to test their HL7v2 store[2]. Also presuming it hasn't been very active given that Google surprisingly shut down their Healthcare division (and probably restarted it somewhere)[3].
Baiting healthcare forcussed devs/startups for acquiring?
Analyzing how people are building apps using this data to build their own?
Free training data for their next product?
Amazon is kinda growing in healthcare and maybe Google doesn't want to be behind.
Well it certainly was built for some future product, but it was probably released as open source solely so an engineer could have "community contributions" on their promo packet.
I don't believe this would count as a community contribution, which is generally I believe about contributions to Google's community.
While I don't think it's a bad career move, and that may have been part of their consideration, I find the trivialization of the work put in by someone here to open source something they thought would be a positive contribution hurtful.
More broadly, all big 3 cloud providers (Azure, AWS, and Google) have offerings for FHIR data storage and API access, as well as common NLP based healthcare data analysis workflows. Many of these seem relatively new, or as if they have had a lot of recent attention focused on them. I'm definitely interested in how/why these companies (as well as some other VC funded ones, like Medplum), are entering this space with products that are not directly sellable, but are rather things that other tools would have to build upon. It seems like AWS works directly with end-customers to use their APIs to build products, but I'm not sure what Azure and Google are doing.
This one's probably too complex for my use case, but I thought the concept looked very neat and wanted to share.