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“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.
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.
“As healthcare providers, we are all battling the same crisis,” said Michael Wargo, vice president of emergency preparedness at HCA Healthcare.
“However, we are being faced with COVID-19 at different times and levels of severity. By pooling our data into one cohesive platform, we can share best practices to better prepare communities across the country for this unprecedented pandemic.”
As one of the biggest health systems, HCA Healthcare will leverage data from its 35 million annual patient encounters. HCA will provide data from its 185 hospitals that structurally comply with HIPAA and other applicable restrictions. The health system also invited 4,000 hospitals across the country to join and share data in the portal as well.
The platform is expected to go live next week. HCA Healthcare, SADA, and Google Cloud encourage hospitals interested in learning more about submitting data to visit onboarding.nationalresponseportal.com.
“Healthcare organizations need access to accurate and timely information around the country to plan for care and respond to COVID-19,” said Philip Moyer, vice president, industry sales at Google Cloud. “We’re proud to team up with HCA Healthcare and SADA in the launch of this important new data resource for care providers on the front lines.”
Recognizing signs and symptoms to track the spread of the virus is too much for human minds to comprehend on their own. COVID-19 has caused big data issues, so researchers have turned to artificial intelligence and machine learning to help tackle the challenges.
At the end of March, Vivli announced that it recently launched a COVID-19 portal for sharing completed interventional treatment clinical data.
The organization will waive all member and user fees for sharing and access and believe its initiative will bring researchers closer to safe and effective treatments and vaccines.
“Vivli has been at the forefront of data sharing and I am delighted to see us do all that we can to advance the knowledge around the COVID-19 pandemic,” Ida Sim, Vivli co-founder said in the announcement.
“Vivli was created to make data sharing practical and easy to do. COVID-19 trials should be made open to all researchers so that no stone is left unturned in reviewing and analyzing data,” she explained.
Experts strive for more open data sharing, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It is important for the entire data sharing community to come together and do everything we can to share the data from these completed clinical trials,” said Rebecca Li, Vivli executive director.
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