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October 25, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
October 17, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
October 04, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
September 23, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
September 05, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
August 20, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
Getting all FHIR Encounter resource details is available in Preview.
August 01, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
July 16, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
July 09, 2024
Using customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) to encrypt Cloud Healthcare API datasets is generally available (GA) and available in Preview. For more information, see Enable customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for Cloud Healthcare API datasets.
July 02, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
June 19, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
June 11, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
May 16, 2024
The fhir_read_ops, fhir_write_ops, and fhir_search_ops quota metrics are generally available (GA) and have replaced the legacy fhir_ops quota metric. For more information, see FHIR quotas.
May 14, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
Importing and exporting FHIR resources, including their historical versions, as history bundles using Cloud Storage is available in Preview.
May 07, 2024
Using a filter when exporting HL7v2 messages to Cloud Storage is generally available (GA) and available in Preview.
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
April 26, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
April 04, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
March 21, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
March 20, 2024
The Healthcare Natural Language API supports the following entity mention types in Preview:
- Oncology
- Social determinants of health (SDOH)
- Protected health information (PHI)
Explaining data access using FHIR is available in Preview.
February 27, 2024
A new release is available. This release may include some or all of the following: general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
February 15, 2024
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
February 07, 2024
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
February 01, 2024
You can use the Google Cloud console to view DICOM store metrics.
You can use the Google Cloud console to view HL7v2 store metrics.
January 24, 2024
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
January 12, 2024
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
January 10, 2024
January 08, 2024
December 20, 2023
DICOM RetrieveBulkdata endpoint is available in Preview. This allows RetrieveMetadata to return BulkDataURIs for bulkdata tags. For more information, see Retrieve bulkdata.
December 18, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
December 08, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
November 15, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
November 06, 2023
Configuring Blob storage settings is now available in Preview. With this feature you can do the following:
November 03, 2023
Connecting to applications using SMART on FHIR in the Cloud Healthcare API is available in Preview.
November 02, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
October 26, 2023
Recover FHIR resources with point-in-time recovery (PITR) is available in Preview.
October 23, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
October 10, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
October 06, 2023
The Cloud Healthcare API offers multi-region support in the Europe (eu) region.
October 02, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
September 25, 2023
FHIR access control with admin cascading policy is available in Preview.
September 20, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
September 12, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
August 22, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
August 18, 2023
Pub/Sub notifications for DICOM store bulk import is generally available (GA).
August 14, 2023
The following conditional FHIR methods are generally available (GA) using the FHIR identifier search parameter:
- The
fhir.createFHIR standard conditional create fhir.conditionalDeletefhir.conditionalPatchfhir.conditionalUpdate
August 11, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
July 31, 2023
You can extract the Healthcare Natural Language API entities as a FHIR R4 bundle, as an additional output format, when using the nlp.analyzeEntities method.
July 27, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
July 25, 2023
FHIR admin consent for FHIR access control is available in Preview.
July 19, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
July 07, 2023
July 06, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
June 26, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
May 31, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
May 30, 2023
Pub/Sub notifications containing FHIR data is generally available (GA).
Using the notificationConfig object on a FHIR store is deprecated. Use the notificationConfigs object instead.
May 25, 2023
May 24, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
May 16, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
May 08, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
April 27, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
April 21, 2023
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the northamerica-northeast2 (Toronto, Canada) region.
March 29, 2023
FHIR search results are limited by the response size. For more information, see Pagination and sorting and Including additional resources in search results.
March 28, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
March 27, 2023
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the me-west1 (Tel Aviv, Israel) region.
March 21, 2023
Viewing FHIR store metrics is generally available (GA).
March 16, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
March 06, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
February 20, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
February 13, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
February 01, 2023
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
December 19, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
December 08, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
November 08, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
The V3 HL7v2 store parser version is generally available (GA).
November 01, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
October 12, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
September 30, 2022
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the asia-east1 (Taiwan) and the asia-northeast2 (Osaka, Japan) regions.
September 29, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
September 23, 2022
When you export DICOM metadata to BigQuery, the generated BigQuery table now contains two new columns, and contains metadata identifying if the DICOM instance in the DICOM store was deleted. For more information, see LastUpdated and Type columns.
September 08, 2022
A demo for the Healthcare Natural Language API is now available. For more information, see Try the Healthcare Natural Language API.
August 26, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
August 19, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
FHIR access control is available in Preview.
August 03, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
July 26, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
June 28, 2022
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the asia-southeast2 (Jakarta, Indonesia) region.
June 27, 2022
Improved performance when searching for large FHIR resources in the FHIR viewer.
June 21, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
June 15, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
Added the complexDataTypeReferenceParsing field to the FHIR store resource, which lets you parse references within complex FHIR data types, such as FHIR extensions.
June 01, 2022
De-identification operations are now billed progressively as the work completes. An operation that does not complete might still incur billing for the work that was completed successfully.
When a FHIR resource is modified, the full contents of the FHIR resource can be sent in a Pub/Sub notification. For more information, see FHIR notifications containing FHIR data.
May 31, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
May 24, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
May 16, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
May 12, 2022
The Healthcare Natural Language API is now available in the europe-west2 location.
May 11, 2022
The following methods now look up references to resource versions and return them if they exist:
fhir.searchwith an_includeparameterfhir.Patient-everything
May 03, 2022
The Healthcare Natural Language API is available in the following locations:
April 29, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
April 22, 2022
Performing a FHIR search with the _content parameter and without specifying a FHIR resource type will be deprecated on May 23, 2022. You must specify a FHIR resource type when searching with the _content parameter. See Text search for more information.
April 14, 2022
Fixed an issue with FHIR base profile validation when data is imported from Google Cloud Storage.
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
April 01, 2022
You can now specify PATCH requests in a FHIR bundle. This feature is available in Preview. See Executing a PATCH request in a FHIR bundle for more information.
March 31, 2022
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the us-east1 (South Carolina) region.
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the us-west1 (Oregon) region.
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the us-west3 (Salt Lake City) region.
March 28, 2022
A release was made. Updates may include general performance improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the API reference documentation.
March 09, 2022
The _type and _since parameters are available for the fhirStores.export method. You can use these parameters to filter resources from exporting. This increases the speed of the export process and eliminates unwanted export data.
February 22, 2022
You can now stream and export FHIR resources to BigQuery using the FHIR analytics schema with support for repeated extension columns and contained resources as JSON strings.
January 28, 2022
The Healthcare Natural Language API now uses Vertex AI to extract medical insights from medical text. A new model is now used for healthcare-specific entity extraction.
January 12, 2022
It is now possible to validate a FHIR resource for a specific profile or for all profiles defined for a FHIR store to ensure that your FHIR resource conforms to one more profiles.
January 10, 2022
It is now possible to connect multiple FHIR stores within a dataset using federation. FHIR stores within a federated dataset are separate stores with separate access control and configuration, but FHIR references can refer across store boundaries with all the functionality normally available for references within the same store
November 04, 2021
It is now possible to determine the base resource validation level using the projects.locations.datasets.fhirStores.patch method.
October 06, 2021
Importing and exporting HL7v2 messages using Google Cloud Storage is generally available (GA).
September 08, 2021
The Healthcare Natural Language API is generally available (GA).
August 18, 2021
An interactive version of the Cloud Healthcare API quickstart is now available in the Cloud Console. Access the quickstart.
July 27, 2021
Creating custom FHIR searches is available in public preview.
July 06, 2021
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the europe-west3 (Frankfurt) region.
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the asia-northeast3 (Seoul) region.
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the asia-south1 (Mumbai) region.
May 04, 2021
The defaultSearchHandlingStrict field in the projects.locations.datasets.fhirStores.FhirStore resource is now available in the v1 version of the Cloud Healthcare API.
April 23, 2021
The reference patterns document provides sample code and technical reference guides for common Cloud Healthcare API use cases.
April 20, 2021
Resource indexing will now complete before the service sends asynchronous notifications such as Pub/Sub notifications. This ensures that services receiving notifications through Pub/Sub can assume that the resource is searchable when the notification is received.
February 16, 2021
SMART (Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies) on FHIR v1.1.0 data standard to access data in FHIR stores in the Cloud Healthcare API is available in Preview.
February 11, 2021
It is now possible to view the details of in-process long-running operations (LRO) from within the Healthcare Browser in the Cloud Console.
February 09, 2021
It is now possible set the value of the writeDisposition enum when exporting FHIR resources.
February 08, 2021
The Cloud Healthcare API now supports getting HL7v2 messages in bulk. See Retrieving HL7v2 messages in bulk.
February 04, 2021
The Quickstart using curl or Windows PowerShell has been updated with additional information on storing and viewing DICOM, FHIR, and HL7v2 data.
January 29, 2021
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the us-east4 (North Virginia) region.
November 26, 2020
It is now possible to convert Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) XML files to JSON using the new XmlToJson tool.
November 05, 2020
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the europe-west6 (Zurich, Switzerland) region.
October 12, 2020
You can use the WriteDisposition enum to determine whether to overwrite or append to an existing BigQuery table when calling the following methods:
October 08, 2020
The Consent Management API is available in beta.
October 07, 2020
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the southamerica-east1 (Osasco (São Paulo), Brazil) region.
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the australia-southeast1 (Sydney, Australia) region.
September 17, 2020
You can now configure a ParserVersion in an HL7v2 store, which allows you to set the version of the unschematized parser. A new parser version, V2, has been added, which allows parsedData to include every given non-empty message field. This version parses the MSH segment starting with the MSH-1 field and is in accordance with the HL7v2 standard.
September 08, 2020
Two new permissions, healthcare.locations.get and healthcare.locations.list, have been added to the IAM permissions. These permissions are checked whenever the new GetLocation and ListLocations methods are called.
August 26, 2020
The v1beta1 API has begun updating to a revised version. The update will occur over the next several weeks. View Updates to the v1beta1 API for a list of changes and how to update your client code.
August 03, 2020
The Cloud Healthcare API now supports importing HL7v2 messages from Cloud Storage. See Importing HL7v2 messages from Cloud Storage for more information.
June 08, 2020
It is now possible to de-identify data from within the Healthcare Browser in the Cloud Console.
June 02, 2020
It is now possible to import DICOM data to and export DICOM data from BigQuery using the Healthcare Browser in the Cloud Console. You can also import DICOM data from Cloud Storage using the Healthcare Browser.
May 29, 2020
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the asia-east2 (Hong Kong) region.
May 26, 2020
Search results for DICOM studies and series might take several seconds to update after deleting an instance using instances.delete.
April 23, 2020
Code samples are available for the Cloud Healthcare API v1 in Go, Java, Node.js, and Python.
April 07, 2020
It is now possible to export resource changes to BigQuery each time a FHIR resource is created, updated, patched, or deleted in a FHIR store, using the new field for a store, streamConfigs.
You can now configure the HL7v2 store with multiple Pub/Sub topics and use filters to send notifications to different Pub/Sub topics.
General availability release Cloud Healthcare API is generally available with release version v1.
For information on the differences between the v1beta1 release and the v1 release, see Transitioning to the v1 API.
February 13, 2020
The messages field returned by the projects.locations.datasets.hl7V2Stores.messages.list method is deprecated. The method returns hl7_v2_messages, an array of messages. The new view input parameter specifies the fields to return. After the deprecation period ends on March 2, 2020, the method will only return hl7_v2_messages.
February 10, 2020
The Cloud Healthcare API supports all major release versions of the FHIR standard. You can specify DSTU2, STU3, or R4 when you create a FHIR store.
Required permissions for the FHIR store have changed. You can now grant user access as follows:
* Access to APIs no longer includes read access to the FHIR store configuration.
* Access to the search API does not require get access.
* Access to executeBundle does not give create, update, delete, or get permission.
Logging has been added for executeBundle.
October 24, 2019
DICOM and FHIR de-identification at the individual store level is now available in beta. De-identification using filters is also now available in beta. See the de-identification documentation for DICOM and FHIR data for more information.
September 24, 2019
Public access to the Cloud Healthcare API v1alpha2 version has been discontinued. Access to the v1alpha2 version is now restricted to Trusted Testers. To become a Trusted Tester, complete this form.
September 16, 2019
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the asia-southeast1 (Singapore) and us-west2 (Los Angeles) regions.
September 12, 2019
Cloud Healthcare API gcloud tool commands are now available in gcloud beta.
August 13, 2019
DICOM de-identification supports an additional configuration option of not automatically regenerating unique identifiers (UIDs), such as StudyInstanceUID, SeriesInstanceUID, and SOPInstanceUID as part of the operation. See the documentation for more information on when you might want to enable this option.
July 26, 2019
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) region.
July 15, 2019
The Cloud Healthcare API offers single-region support in the europe-west4 (Netherlands) region.
July 10, 2019
The Cloud Healthcare API offers multi-region support in the us (United States) region.
June 19, 2019
DICOM de-identification has improved image output quality. There is now support for lossless image output for lossless image input formats.
April 04, 2019
The Google Cloud Console provides a user interface to the Cloud Healthcare API. The console allows you to:
- Create and manage healthcare datasets
- Create and manage FHIR stores, DICOM stores, and HL7v2 stores
- Manage permissions
- View the status of long-running operations
An expanded set of configuration options are available for de-identification operations on DICOM and FHIR data. These options provide greater control over how resources (including pixel data) are processed. For details, see De-identifying sensitive data.
DICOMweb has improved performance.
DICOM has these conformance enhancements:
- The API supports QIDO-RS result pagination, fuzzy patient-name matching, and transcoding additional DICOM transfer syntaxes, including lossless JPEG.
- To avoid managing multipart headers on the client side, the API supports single-part WADO-RS and STOW-RS requests. See the DICOM conformance statement for details.
User labels on DICOM, HL7v2, and FHIR stores make it possible to filter resources and view billing charges based on label values.
Public beta release The Cloud Healthcare API provides a managed solution for storing and accessing healthcare data in Google Cloud Platform.