With the number of coronavirus cases surging in most U.S. states, several healthcare providers are seeking to enable an unprecedented level of data sharing with the creation of the National Response Portal (NRP).
Built on Google Cloud by cloud solutions provider SADA, the NRP is an open data platform intended to help hospitals and communities better understand and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by providing an “on the ground’ picture of the situation.
“At the beginning of the outbreak we were in a time of great uncertainty. No one had ever seen COVID before. We didn’t know what to expect,” says Dr. Edmund Jackson, chief data officer at HCA Healthcare, which sparked the NRP project. “At HCA, we realized that in order for us to prepare for it, we needed to see more than we usually do. We had to understand as a healthcare system, not as individual participants, but as a system, what the total state of COVID was in the nation.”
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