- Google Cloud Launches Healthcare API During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Google Cloud Unveils COVID-19 Data Sharing Platform For Providers
These additional partnerships will enable new and existing customers to share critical data between applications and draw insights from sets of data extracted from their hybrid, multi-cloud environments.
“Data is at the center of every business’ digital transformation and we are proud to partner with Splunk to help organizations build data-driven, cloud-native strategies,” Thomas Kurian, CEO at Google Cloud, said in the announcement.
“Businesses can now leverage Splunk’s capabilities in data analytics for IT, security, user behavior and more, on Google Cloud’s trusted and secure infrastructure.”
The Splunk Data-to-Everything Platform is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) that allows organizations to make data-driven decisions and take action on insights from their data without the need to purchase, manage, or deploy additional infrastructure.
Integrating Splunk Cloud on Google Cloud brings customers a single platform view to investigate, monitor, and analyze, and act on their data. Customers can be assured that their data is secured within the Google Cloud infrastructure.
Splunk Cloud customers will further benefit from Google Cloud’s technology capabilities, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, security, networking, and data analytics, Google said.
“Splunk helps companies bring data to every question, decision and action for both on-premises and cloud digitization journeys at incredible speed and great scale,” said Doug Merritt, president and CEO at Splunk.
“We chose to partner with Google Cloud to deliver the technology, capabilities and trusted infrastructure required to help businesses connect all forms of data. Splunk’s partnership with Google Cloud will help empower even more customers to harness nearly limitless data opportunities across IT, Security and Application Development while remaining agile and cost effective."
As the COVID-19 pandemic lingers in the US, safe and efficient data sharing between providers and patients is vital. Information from this data can guide treatment protocols when clinical trial data does not exist or might be too slow to inform a rapidly evolving pandemic.
Last month, Google Cloud and HCA Healthcare 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.
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 and hospitals will be able to submit data each day, which will focus on metrics such as ICU supply and utilization, ventilator supply and utilization, total numbers of positive, negative, pending COVID-19 test results, and total number of healthy patients who have been discharged.
The portal will leverage public datasets including data on local shelter-in-place policies and traffic or mobility patterns. This will help experts understand how public behaviors and policies may impact the spread of the virus.
“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.”
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