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New Google Healthcare API Addresses Interoperability Challenges

Googles latest cloud-based healthcare API allows organizations to view their data in a single platform, undertaking many interoperability challenges.

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By Elizabeth O'Dowd

- Google announced the release of its healthcare application programming interface (API) to help organizations address interoperability challenges. The cloud-based healthcare API may help encourage organizations that are still behind in their digital transformation.

The API simplifies healthcare data management by allowing entities to absorb and manage different types of medical data on one platform. This will give organizations faster access to the technology they need to process information.

An API is an interface that allows unrelated software programs to communicate with one another. They act as bridges between two applications, allowing data to flow, regardless of how each application was originally designed.