Google Cloud Unveils COVID-19 Data Sharing Platform For Providers

HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud recently launched a COVID-19 data sharing platform to enable the exchange of key information during the pandemic.  The COVID-19 National Response Portal, operated by SADA, runs on Google Cloud and promotes COVID-19 patient data sharing to uncover how the virus is spreading and help communities to prepare and respond.  “COVID-19 presents a unique and significant challenge to healthcare providers, and collaboration and coordination is more important than ever to help ensure the best possible response,” said Edmund Jackson, MD, HCA Healthcare’s chief data officer.  While COVID-19 has driven us apart physically, we will respond to it by coming together digitally. We are proud to work alongside Google Cloud to create a platform to help address this urgent public health challenge.” The portal, built and operated by SADA, will allow healthcare providers to safely share and display anonymous, aggregated metrics from hospital systems to other platforms. Providers will then be able to share and display information of the COVID-19 pandemic.