“While researchers are learning to integrate this big data, putting it to work for individual patients, in real time, is a huge challenge. “In the past few years, the amount of available data about health care has exploded,” said Minor.
But genomic studies, patient health records, medical images from MRI and CT scans, and wearable devices that monitor activity, gait or blood chemistry involve huge amounts of data that can allow doctors and researchers alike to analyze myriad aspects of patient health in ways that lead to improved medical decisions and products that are tailored to the patient - the essence of a precision health approach. It’s an extraordinary investment, and we’re proud to play such a large role in transforming patient care and research.”Īshley noted that medicine mostly deals in small data, such as lab tests. “Together, Stanford Medicine and Google are making a major contribution and commitment in curing diseases that afflict children not just in our community, but throughout the world. “This collaboration will enable Stanford to discover new ways to advance medicine to the benefit of Stanford patients and families,” said Ed Kopetsky, chief information officer at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health.
Then a data curation team will work with the physician to narrow the possibilities, he said. At that point, Stanford can use Google Cloud to analyze the data to decide which gene variants might be responsible for the patient’s health condition. “The DNA gets sequenced and a large amount of data comes back,” he said. A physician who thinks a genome-sequencing test could help a patient can simply request sequencing along with other blood tests, he said. “Genetic testing is built into the whole system,” said Ashley. The Clinical Genomics Service aims to make genetic testing a normal part of health care for patients. “As the new service launches,” said Euan Ashley, MRCP, DPhil, a Stanford associate professor of medicine and of genetics, “we’ll be doing hundreds and then thousands of genome sequences.” The genomic data would then go to the Google Cloud Platform to join masses of aggregated and anonymous data from other Stanford patients. The Clinical Genomics Service will enable physicians at Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children’s Health to order genome sequencing for patients who have distinctive or unusual symptoms that might be caused by a wayward gene. “We are excited to support the creation of the Clinical Genomics Service by connecting our clinical care technologies with Google’s extraordinary capabilities for cloud data storage, analysis and interpretation, enabling Stanford to lead in the field of precision health,” said Pravene Nath, chief information officer for Stanford Health Care. With Google Genomics, Stanford Medicine will build its new Clinical Genomics Service on the Google Cloud Platform, expanding genomics research and establishing new methods of real-time data analysis for efficient patient care. Patient information will be encrypted, both in transit and on servers, and kept on servers in the United States. HIPAA requires that Stanford Medicine patient data stored on Google Cloud Platform servers stay private. As such, Google and Stanford will both comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a federal law that regulates the privacy and security of medical information. a formal business associate of Stanford Medicine. The agreement - considered key to Stanford Health Care’s development of the Clinical Genomics Service - makes Google Inc. We’re proud to be setting this milestone for the future of patient care and research,” said Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of the School of Medicine. “Stanford Medicine and Google are committing to major investments in preventing and curing diseases that afflict ordinary people worldwide. Together, Stanford Medicine and Google will build cloud-based applications for exploring massive health-care data sets, a move that could transform patient care and medical research. Stanford Medicine includes the Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children’s Health. Stanford’s forthcoming Clinical Genomics Service, which puts genomic sequencing into the hands of clinicians to help diagnose disease, will be built using Google Genomics, a service that applies the same technologies that power Google Search and Maps to securely store, process, explore and share genomic data sets. The new collaboration combines Stanford Medicine’s excellence in health-care research and clinical work with Google’s expertise in cloud technology and data science. Stanford Medicine and Google are working together to transform patient care and medical research through data science.
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