Google joins with HCA and SADA to take on COVID-19
HCA Healthcare, the 185-hospital, publicly traded provider company based in Nashville, is partnering with Google Cloud and the tech-services supplier SADA to offer communities an open-access data platform.
The trio’s aim is to help local healthcare providers coordinate their response to COVID-19.
Called the COVID-19 National Response Portal, the platform is designed to help healthcare providers quickly find out where their locality stands on things like ventilator utilization, testing results ICU bed availability and COVID patient discharges.
According to an HCA news release, hospital systems across the U.S. can contribute to the national pandemic response by submitting data to the portal each day.
“As healthcare providers, we are all battling the same crisis,” says Michael Wargo, HCA’s vice president of emergency preparedness. “However, we are being faced with COVID-19 at different times and levels of severity. By pooling our data into one cohesive platform, we can share best practices to better prepare communities across the country for this unprecedented pandemic.”
The portal was built by SADA and is running on Google Cloud.
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