Two months ago the Washington Post reported that Google “has partnered with health-care provider Ascension to collect and store personal data for millions of patients, including full names, dates of birth and clinical histories, in order to make smarter recommendations to physicians.”
Now CNBC reports that the medical record vendor Epic Systems “has been phoning customers to tell them it will not pursue further integration with Google Cloud. The company is instead focusing on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure, citing insufficient interest from customers in Google.
“The move comes as Google is facing criticism from privacy advocates about its work with Ascension, one of the largest U.S. health systems,” CNBC adds. But could this start influencing which cloud provider hospitals choose for their records?
“We’ve historically seen hospital systems make these decisions independently of their medical record provider,” said Aneesh Chopra, the president of health-technology company CareJourney and the former chief technology officer of the United States. “It will be interesting to see if Epic’s thumb on the scale moves cloud market share….”
Epic isn’t alone in its move.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Cerner decided against pursuing a data-storage relationship with Google despite being offered tens of millions of dollars in incentives. The company was on the hunt for a cloud vendor to help it store 250 million patient medical records. In the end, Cerner went with Amazon.
In 2017 CNBC reported Cerner’s collaboration with Amazon would initially focus on a “popular health product…which enables hospitals to gather and analyze huge volumes of clinical data to improve patients’ health outcomes and lower treatment costs.”
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