Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT and eHealth news for the week ending March 11:
Google announces Cloud Healthcare API to unlock health data
Health Data Management ~ Greg Slabodkin ~ 06/03/2018
Google’s Cloud Healthcare API is meant to extract data from electronic health records and “other proprietary data” by using DICOM, FHIR, and HL7 protocols, according to Eric Schmidt, technical advisor and former executive chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google.
Seema Verma rolls out new CMS interoperability initiatives
Healthcare IT News ~ Susan Morse ~ 06/03/2018
The initiative will ensure that patients receive a copy of their entire health record electronically. It will be done through program interfaces, or APIs, she said
