Healthcare APIs will become big hacker targets in 2022, but Google Cloud could have a solution

Insider Intelligence March 12, 2021
Erum Ahmed

The news: Google Cloud is making its Healthcare Consent Management API generally available to customers: Early adopters have already used the API to build personalized patient portals, securely integrate data into clinical workflows, and create virtual clinical trials, according to Google.

Here’s how it works: Google Cloud’s API ensures providers and researchers are meeting privacy requirements and getting patients’ consent before accessing their health data through devices like wearables or glucose monitors.

For example, patients may opt to partake in clinical research or use telehealth from home, but they’ll still want control over how their data is accessed. Google’s Content Management API will serve as a checkpoint for healthcare developers leveraging patient data: If a researcher wanted to access a...

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