Highmark strikes six-year contract with Google Cloud
The insurer, which also owns Allegheny Health Network, struck a six-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud, which includes building out a new platform to help better manage patient care.
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Google Cloud continued its push into healthcare by striking a contract with a big insurer. It reached a six-year strategic partnership with Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health, which includes one of the largest insurers affiliated with Blue Cross Blue Shield and hospital system Allegheny Health Network. They did not disclose the terms of the deal.
The companies plan to build a platform that would make it easier for patients to share health information between visits and reduce some of the administrative burden for clinicians.
Highmark Health inks six-year cloud, tech deal with Google
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Highmark Health is launching a new consumer experience strategy, underpinned by a six-year contract with Google Cloud, the Pittsburgh-based healthcare company said Thursday.
Highmark Health, which owns health insurer Highmark and health system Allegheny Health Network, on Thursday formally unveiled its Living Health model, a project that the company has said is designed to provide patients with better coordinated and more personalized care and clinicians with technology that cuts down on time spent on administrative tasks.
As part of the project, Highmark Health will work with Google Cloud to build a cloud-based platform that includes centralized scheduling, care management and analytics and artificial intelligence tools. Highmark Health and Google Cloud will also co-develop analytics tools that help create care plans from patients health data and flag possible health issues for early intervention.
Google Cloud powers IT modernization projects for Highmark and Tapestry
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Google LLC today said that its cloud business is working with nonprofit healthcare organization Highmark Health and Tapestry Inc., a publicly traded fashion company, to support their information technology modernization efforts.
Pittsburgh-based Highmark is a major regional health insurer and hospital operator. It also has a presence in a number of adjacent areas such as vision care. Highmark, Google said today, has inked a six-year contract to build a software platform on Google Cloud that’s aimed at reducing administrative work for clinicians and allowing them to access patient information more smoothly.
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