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  • Google Cloud Makes Healthcare API Publicly Available

    Google Cloud Makes Healthcare API Publicly Available

    Google Cloud has announced the general availability of its Healthcare API in an effort to help fight COVID-19.

    As the pandemic continues to take a toll, cloud computing and big data are emerging as important factors in the fight to control it. Now, more than ever, the ability to share data is vital. The CMS and ONC released rules a few months ago to aid in that goal, based on the 21st Century Cures Act. As Google points out, however, the necessary tools still need to be created to capitalize on those rules and provide healthcare professionals what they need.

    “To address this gap, we’ve made our Cloud Healthcare API generally available today to the industry at-large,” writes Joe Corkery, MD, Director of Product, Healthcare and Life Sciences, and Aashima Gupta, Director of Industry Solutions, Healthcare and Life Sciences. “The API allows healthcare organizations to ingest and manage key data from a range of inputs and systems—and then better understand that data through the application of analytics and machine learning in real time, at scale. It also enables providers to easily interact with that data using Web-friendly, REST-based endpoints and health plans to rapidly get up and running with a cloud based FHIR server providing the capabilities needed to implement, scale and support interoperability and patient access.”

    Google’s announcement is good news for the medical community, and will hopefully aid in the creation of the tools professionals need to continue combatting COVID-19.

  • Under Bezos, Washington Post Has A New Way To Make Money

    Last year, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post. Now, the newspaper is moving forward with a new revenue stream, and it’s something pretty unique for a newspaper publisher.

    The Post will license its content management system to other newspaper sites, according to a report from The Financial Times, which says:

    Potential clients could include the recently launched network of local and regional US newspapers whose subscribers receive free access to the Post’s digital products. The paper views “the partner programme as not just about content but about us offering technology solutions”, said Shailesh Prakash, chief information officer.

    Student newspapers at Columbia, Yale and the University of Maryland already use the Post’s content management software in a trial for how it could be opened up to other professional news services.

    The Post is already adding engineers and expanding its design and development efforts with a new office. The paper has reportedly added 20 engineers to its team of over 200 this year.

    Business Insider, which Bezos also invests in, points to comments he made at its conference:

    The internet has radically disrupted traditional newspapers, so there’s a lot of invention and experimentation to be done … even though I didn’t know anything about the newspaper business, I did know something about the internet and companies reacting to the internet. That, combined with the financial runway that I can provide, is the reason why I bought the company.

    The Post has reportedly added about 100 people to its editorial staff since Bezos took over.

    Image via The Washington Post

  • Google Friend Connect Heads to Drupal and Joomla

    Google announced that Google Friend Connect features are now available for the Drupal and Joomla content management systems. This means that content publishers using these platforms can integrate Google’s product, which basically turns your site into a mini social network.

    "Now that Friend Connect is integrated with these popular open source CMS platforms, site owners can make registration easier for users and offer them a set of social features — all without writing a single line of code," says Globant’s Mauro Gonzalez on Google’s Social Web Blog. "Even site owners without programming experience can add these plugins."

    Friend Connect on Drupal

    Friend Connect on Joomla

    The Google Friend Connect integrations with Drupal and Joomla include features like: 

    – Interest Polls
    – AdSense
    – Newsletter Subscriptions
    – Featured Content
    – Gadgets (like Members, Comments, Recommendations, Activities, Reviews and the Social Bar)

    "When a user joins a Friend Connect site, an account is created and automatically associated with his or her external account of choice (Google, Yahoo, or Twitter, for example)," explains Gonzalez. "The social gadgets can be placed anywhere in the site using the standard Drupal and Joomla administration interfaces. Site owners can moderate reviews and comments, create new polls to collect information about community members, and then advertise on the site using that information. The newsletter feature allows site owners to create and manage their newsletters using Friend Connect’s interface, and site members can subscribe and unsubscribe as desired using the newsletter gadget."

    There are demos of both the Drupal and Joomla Google Friend Connect integrations set up here and here respectively. Some are hoping Google will continue to provide integrations for other content management systems, and it is probably not too much of a stretch to assume they will do so in the future.

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