Janak Joshi, senior vice president and chief technology officer at lifeIMAGE, an image exchange platform that also recently announced a partnership with Google Cloud, said the platform helps its clients judge risk.

The company recently worked with Google to identify breast cancer screening rates for high-risk women, finding that about 18 percent of women faced complications because providers were not able to characterize the right information at the right time. They collected information from various data sources, including lifeIMAGE and its partners, as well as claims systems, and put it into Google’s BigQuery‎, which can analyze massive amounts of data quickly.

“Aggregating data on that scale for millions of patients is something we could not have done simply, or without a huge cost burden behind it,” Joshi said. “Ultimately, you’re able to … collaborate across a single patient or cohort of patients in a matter of seconds.”

The company is already looking into several other initiatives with Google.

“We are looking at Google to bring us together in ways that are unprecedented globally,” Joshi said.

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