What You Should Know:
– LifePoint Health and Google Cloud announced a multi-year partnership aimed at using Google Cloud’s Healthcare Data Engine to transform healthcare delivery in communities across the U.S.
– The Healthcare Data Engine aggregates and organizes data from multiple sources, and for LifePoint, will be used by a patient’s healthcare provider to help clinicians gain further insight into patients records and data. This collaboration brings best-in-class technology to LifePoint’s communities and extends care teams’ reach outside of the traditional hospital setting.
Data interoperability, patient monitoring and world-class virtual care will help improve healthcare cost, quality and access
Google Cloud’s HDE aggregates and organizes data from multiple sources, including medical records, clinical trials, and research data – and for LifePoint, this data is used only for the benefit of a patient’s healthcare provider. The solution helps clinicians gain near real-time, holistic views of patient longitudinal records, and provides advanced analytics and AI in a secure, compliant, and scalable cloud environment. Backed by Google Cloud’s highly scalable and secure managed services that support HIPAA compliance and leverage BigQuery for robust processing, HDE will help LifePoint Health create new digital solutions and care models, interoperate with innovative third-party solutions, and ensure consistent care across its more than 60 acute care facilities, more than 30 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care nationwide.
This collaboration will bring best-in-class technology to a wide range of communities outside urban areas, extending LifePoint care teams’ reach outside of the traditional four walls of the hospital. As a result, patients can receive top-quality care close to home instead of having to travel to larger cities where healthcare innovation has traditionally been concentrated. By leveraging cutting-edge technology solutions, the partnership will help improve quality, increase access and ensure equitable care for patients in zip codes of all sizes and demographics, across the healthcare continuum.
Through the partnership, LifePoint and Google Cloud will seek to address significant industry challenges, including traditionally siloed data within healthcare systems, limited data interoperability for both in-person and virtual settings, and access to high-quality healthcare, particularly for those who live outside of large urban areas. LifePoint’s implementation of HDE will enable data interoperability across LifePoint Health’s large number of disparate electronic medical records (EMR) systems, giving providers and clinical teams a more complete view of their patients’ health and allowing them to deliver data-driven, and potentially lifesaving, care. The collaboration positions LifePoint as a leader in both digital and physical care with broadened access to critical behavioral health experts and services in communities across the country.
“LifePoint Health is fundamentally changing how healthcare is delivered at the community level,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud. “Bringing data together from hundreds of sources, and applying AI and machine learning to it will unlock the power of data to make real-time decisions—whether it is around resource utilization, identifying high-risk patients, reducing physician burn out, or other critical needs.”
