Announcing Google Health and Desert Oasis Healthcare’s Care Studio Partnership

The Google Health team is excited to share that we’re partnering with Desert Oasis Healthcare, part of the Heritage Provider Network, to pilot Care Studio at DOHC’s Wellness Clinic. 

DOHC serves a population with complex medical histories, often managing chronic conditions. DOHC takes a preventive approach to care, but data fragmentation and information silos make this challenging. Oftentimes, clinicians have to comb through different systems to understand a patient’s medical history to prepare for their visits.

In ambulatory care settings like DOHC’s Wellness Clinic, care teams need to quickly get up to speed on a patient's history and easily see what’s happened with a patient since their last visit. And even with the right data, it can be difficult for care providers to make sense of the most relevant information. To help combat these information challenges, we’ll bring Care Studio’s search and summarization capabilities to help DOHC clinicians get a more complete picture of a patient’s history all in one place. We’re bringing our medically-tuned search capabilities - including the ability to search through scanned documents, faxes,PDFs etc. - plus our Conditions feature which provides a concise summary of a patient’s medical conditions, along with context and related information, including labs, medications, reports and more, to help clinicians manage and treat conditions. With DOHC, we're excited to further explore how Care Studio can also help outpatient clinicians when they need to quickly understand a patient's history.

In 2023, we plan to pilot Care Studio with a small number of DOHC clinicians, gradually increasing to more users over time. The patient information shared with Google Health by DOHC and its providers is protected by HIPAA and covered under a business associate agreement between the parties. The data shared with us to provide Care Studio will be used solely to provide Care Studio services to DOHC.  Google will not use patient data for advertising, nor will we sell patient data. 

The Wellness Clinic is a critical piece of DOHC’s preventive care model, and we’re eager to work together and understand how Care Studio can help these caregivers be even more efficient and successful in helping their patients stay healthy.

Read more about why this partnership matters: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/google-health-notches-another-provider-partner-care-studio