Google Health’s Care Studio ties up with Meditechhere’s why Epic could be its next target – eMarketer

The news: At the HIMSS conference this week, Google Health announced a partnership to integrate Googles Care Studio with Meditechs electronic health record (EHR) platform, per a Google blog post.

How does Googles Care Studio work? It essentially serves as a clinical search tool that lets clinicians quickly access patient information in their personal health record.

For example, providers can type a word like diabetes or hemoglobin into the Care Studio search bar, and the tool will pull up all relevant patient info across the health systems multiple clinical softwares.

Quick access to a patients clinical information could be handy for physicians already overburdened with paperwork, since patient information is often buried across multiple platforms. Some hospitals have a patients MRI results and medical history on two different softwares requiring separate logins, for instance. Toggling between both takes valuable time away from patient care.

Heres what the partnership means for Google: Its Care Studio has had one-off partnerships with health systems, but partnering with Meditech means reaching multiple new hospital clients.

Last year, Googles Care Studio inked a deal with major health system Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIMDC) to let clinicians try the tech giants clinical search tools.

BIMDC wasnt its first health system-tie up, though.

Now, the expanded Meditech partnership means Google will eventually get its Care Studio in the hands of physicians at various new health systems: Meditech boasts over 623 hospital clients, per its website.

Whats next? If Care Studios partnership is a hit with Meditechs hospital clients, it would be a jumpstart to Google partnering with larger EHR vendors like Epic and Oracles Cerner.

That would help Googles Care Studio scale more rapidly than with a Meditech partnership alone:

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Google Health's Care Studio ties up with Meditechhere's why Epic could be its next target - eMarketer