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Cloud Healthcare API

Unlock your healthcare data to power insights and AI

A secure, compliant, fully managed service for ingesting, transforming and storing healthcare data in FHIR, HL7v2, and DICOM formats, and unstructured text.

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New customers get $300 in free credits to spend on Cloud Healthcare API.

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Features

Integration with prebuilt AI and machine learning tools

Cloud Healthcare API allows you to unlock the true value of your healthcare data by enabling integration with advanced analytics and machine learning solutions such as BigQuery, AutoML, and Vertex AI.

Managed scalability

Cloud Healthcare API provides web-native, serverless scaling optimized by Google’s infrastructure. Simply activate the API and start sending requests—no initial capacity configuration required. Although some limits exist (such as Pub/Sub quotas), capacity can expand to match usage patterns.

Enhanced data liquidity

Cloud Healthcare API supports bulk import and export of FHIR data and DICOM data, accelerating time-to-delivery for solutions with dependencies on existing datasets, and providing a convenient API for moving data between projects.

Developer friendly

Cloud Healthcare API organizes your healthcare information into datasets with one or more modality-specific store per set. Each store exposes both a REST and RPC interface. You can use Identity and Access Management to set fine-grained access policies.

Services

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FHIR API

Create, retrieve, store, and search clinical data in the FHIR format

HL7v2 API

Ingest, create, store, and search streaming clinical data 

DICOM API

Ingest, retrieve, and store medical imaging data 

Healthcare Natural Language API

Extract and standardize medical concepts and relationships from unstructured healthcare data

De-identification API

De-identify healthcare data to meet compliance requirements when sharing data for research and analytics 

FHIR API

Create, retrieve, store, and search clinical data in the FHIR format

HL7v2 API

Ingest, create, store, and search streaming clinical data 

DICOM API

Ingest, retrieve, and store medical imaging data 

Healthcare Natural Language API

Extract and standardize medical concepts and relationships from unstructured healthcare data

De-identification API

De-identify healthcare data to meet compliance requirements when sharing data for research and analytics 

How It Works

With support for healthcare data standards such as HL7® FHIR®, HL7® v2, and DICOM®, the Cloud Healthcare API provides a fully managed, highly scalable, enterprise-grade development environment for building clinical and analytics solutions securely on Google Cloud.

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Common Uses

Store, manage, and query FHIR data

Import existing FHIR data into Cloud Healthcare API

Build your primary and secondary clinical data repositories using any of the major versions of the FHIR standard (R4, STU3, and DSTU2). Leverage the Cloud Healthcare API for highly performant and scalable data storage, and access to your FHIR data via fully managed REST APIs.
Learn how to create and manage FHIR stores

    Import existing FHIR data into Cloud Healthcare API

    Build your primary and secondary clinical data repositories using any of the major versions of the FHIR standard (R4, STU3, and DSTU2). Leverage the Cloud Healthcare API for highly performant and scalable data storage, and access to your FHIR data via fully managed REST APIs.
    Learn how to create and manage FHIR stores

      Healthcare Data Engine, powered by Cloud Healthcare API

      Automate transformations and reconciliation of various healthcare data formats into FHIR to create a longitudinal patient record and accelerate application development, analytics, and AI/ML workflows with Google Cloud's Healthcare Data Engine.
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      Healthcare Data Engine Reference Architecture

        Store, manage, and view DICOM data

        Ingest, retrieve, and store medical imaging data

        Integrate your existing imaging devices and PACS solutions with the Cloud Healthcare API’s open source DICOMweb endpoint or import your data directly into the Cloud Healthcare API from Cloud Storage.
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          Ingest, retrieve, and store medical imaging data

          Integrate your existing imaging devices and PACS solutions with the Cloud Healthcare API’s open source DICOMweb endpoint or import your data directly into the Cloud Healthcare API from Cloud Storage.
          Get started with DICOM in the Cloud Healthcare API

            Medical Imaging Suite, powered by Cloud Healthcare API

            As a core component of Google Cloud's Medical Imaging Suite, Cloud Healthcare API allows easy and secure data exchange using the international DICOMweb standard for imaging, making imaging data accessible, interoperable, and useful.
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            Medical Imaging Suite Reference Architecture

              Gain insights from unstructured text

              Healthcare Natural Language API

              Gain real-time analysis of insights stored in unstructured medical text. Healthcare Natural Language API allows you to distill machine-readable medical insights from medical documents, while AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare makes it simple to build custom knowledge extraction models for healthcare and life sciences apps—no coding skills required.
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                Healthcare Natural Language API

                Gain real-time analysis of insights stored in unstructured medical text. Healthcare Natural Language API allows you to distill machine-readable medical insights from medical documents, while AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare makes it simple to build custom knowledge extraction models for healthcare and life sciences apps—no coding skills required.
                Get started with Healthcare Natural Language API

                  Claims Acceleration Suite, powered by Cloud Healthcare API

                  Healthcare Natural Language API, a core component of Google Cloud’s Claims Acceleration Suite, extracts essential data elements from unstructured medical text to help streamline health insurance and prior authorization claims processing.
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                  Claims Acceleration Suite Reference Diagram

                    Pricing

                    How Cloud Healthcare API pricing worksCloud Healthcare API pricing is based on region, services, and usage. Prices for US regions are shown below.
                    Services and usageSubscription typePrice (USD)
                    Data storage

                    Structured storage

                    Storage volume is based on bytes of data ingested plus indexing overhead (as measured by indexed bytes) and backup bytes.

                    Ranges from

                    $0.19-$0.39

                    Per GB per month. The first GB is free.

                    Blob storage

                    Blob storage prices are based on the amount of non-structured or BLOB bytes that are ingested and stored.

                    Ranges from

                    $0.02-$0.026

                    Per GB per month. The first GB is free.

                    Request volume

                    Standard requests

                    Default for all requests.

                    Starting at

                    $0.39

                    Per request per month. The first 25,000 requests are free.

                    Complex requests

                    Captures API requests that are computationally intense compared with standard requests.

                    Starting at

                    $0.69

                    Per request per month. The first 25,000 requests are free.

                    Notification volume

                    Standard notifications

                    Notifications are streaming events that originate from data stores and are sent to Google Cloud or external endpoints.

                    $0.29

                    Per 1 million notifications per month. The first 100,000 notifications (per 1 million) are free.

                    ETL operations

                    Export batch

                    Ranges from

                    $0.09-$0.19

                    Per GB per month.

                    Export streaming

                    Ranges from

                    $0.24-$0.34

                    Per GB per month.

                    De-identification operations

                    Inspection

                    Occurs on free text or images to discover instances of sensitive data.

                    Ranges from

                    $0.10-$0.30

                    Per giga unit (GU). The first GU is free.

                    Transformation

                    Encompasses redaction, replacement, hashing, or changes made to sensitive data as part of the de-identification process.

                    Ranges from

                    $1-$3

                    Per GU. The first GU is free.

                    Processing

                    Covers the base cost of the operation. The charges vary for structured storage and blob storage.

                    Ranges from

                    $0.05-$0.60

                    Per GB. The first GB is free.

                    Healthcare Natural Language API

                    Entity analysis

                    Usage of the Healthcare Natural Language API is calculated in terms of text record monthly volume. A text record contains 1,000 characters.

                    Ranges from

                    $0.03-$0.10

                    Per 1 text record. The first 2,500 text records are free.

                    View full pricing details by region, services, and usage.

                    How Cloud Healthcare API pricing works

                    Cloud Healthcare API pricing is based on region, services, and usage. Prices for US regions are shown below.

                    Data storage

                    Structured storage

                    Storage volume is based on bytes of data ingested plus indexing overhead (as measured by indexed bytes) and backup bytes.

                    Ranges from

                    $0.19-$0.39

                    Per GB per month. The first GB is free.

                    Blob storage

                    Blob storage prices are based on the amount of non-structured or BLOB bytes that are ingested and stored.

                    Ranges from

                    $0.02-$0.026

                    Per GB per month. The first GB is free.

                    Request volume

                    Standard requests

                    Default for all requests.

                    Starting at

                    $0.39

                    Per request per month. The first 25,000 requests are free.

                    Complex requests

                    Captures API requests that are computationally intense compared with standard requests.

                    Starting at

                    $0.69

                    Per request per month. The first 25,000 requests are free.

                    Notification volume

                    Standard notifications

                    Notifications are streaming events that originate from data stores and are sent to Google Cloud or external endpoints.

                    $0.29

                    Per 1 million notifications per month. The first 100,000 notifications (per 1 million) are free.

                    ETL operations

                    Export batch

                    Ranges from

                    $0.09-$0.19

                    Per GB per month.

                    Export streaming

                    Ranges from

                    $0.24-$0.34

                    Per GB per month.

                    De-identification operations

                    Inspection

                    Occurs on free text or images to discover instances of sensitive data.

                    Ranges from

                    $0.10-$0.30

                    Per giga unit (GU). The first GU is free.

                    Transformation

                    Encompasses redaction, replacement, hashing, or changes made to sensitive data as part of the de-identification process.

                    Ranges from

                    $1-$3

                    Per GU. The first GU is free.

                    Processing

                    Covers the base cost of the operation. The charges vary for structured storage and blob storage.

                    Ranges from

                    $0.05-$0.60

                    Per GB. The first GB is free.

                    Healthcare Natural Language API

                    Entity analysis

                    Usage of the Healthcare Natural Language API is calculated in terms of text record monthly volume. A text record contains 1,000 characters.

                    Ranges from

                    $0.03-$0.10

                    Per 1 text record. The first 2,500 text records are free.

                    View full pricing details by region, services, and usage.

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                    Connect with our sales team to get a custom quote for your organization.
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                    Unlock the power of your healthcare data

                    Try Cloud Healthcare API in console

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                    Get a quick intro to Cloud Healthcare API

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                    Stream and synchronize FHIR stores with BigQuery

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                    Explore public imaging datasets

                    Use with your application

                    Try the Healthcare Natural Language API demo

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                    Business Case

                    Explore how healthcare and life sciences organizations are using Cloud Healthcare API

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                    Virta uses Cloud Healthcare API to establish an interoperable data platform and information layer

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