Since artificial intelligence analyzes patient data to create customized treatment plans based on genetics, lifestyle and medical history, AI-powered healthcare innovations are deemed a stepping stone toward better outcomes. Onix Networking Corp. has launched a tool called Expanse that summarizes electronic health record data for healthcare providers, according to Ronald Rerko (pictured, right), practice director of healthcare and life sciences at Onix. 

Onix’s Ronald Rerko and Google Cloud’s Shweta Maniar talk with theCUBE about why AI-powered healthcare is becoming central to healthcare innovation.

“What this search and summarization tool does is it can go through the [electronic health records], crawl through it in other records, bring it together and summarize it into an executive summary to put it as simply as possible for the physician to look at and say, ‘What are the most important points I need to know about this patient?,”’ Rerko said. “How do we take all that information, digest it down? It’s clinical decision support. This is merely trying to pull the information together so you can make the best diagnosis that you can.”

Rerko and Shweta Maniar, global director of healthcare and sciences at Google Cloud, spoke with theCUBE’s Rebecca Knight at theCUBE’s Coverage of Google Cloud at HIMSS25, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed why AI is becoming central to healthcare innovation (* Disclosure below.)

Why partnerships are at the heart of AI-powered healthcare innovations

With a collaboration spanning more than 20 years, Onix is a longstanding Google Cloud partner. This partnership leverages Onix’s extensive industry experience alongside Google’s transformative technologies to assist organizations in various areas, such as AI-powered healthcare innovations, according to Rerko. 

“Onix is a thirty-year-old company,” he said. “We were the first partner with Google back in 2003. We’re working very closely with our partners, Meditech and Google, in looking at the other hospital systems that Meditech has their EHR already implemented in and trying to roll it out into those institutions, too. We’re working with partners and saying, ‘How do you best implement this into a system?’”

Onix is accelerating the adoption of AI-powered healthcare innovations to help reduce administrative burdens on healthcare providers, according to Rerko. By streamlining tasks such as scheduling, billing and medical record management, AI allows doctors to spend more time focusing on patient care.

“They’re spending a third of their day on administrative tasks,” he said. “That’s limiting the amount of time that they can actually spend with the patient. “One of the doctors I recently spoke with said, ‘If you can just give me 40 seconds per patient a day, I will love you forever.’ They come to me saying, ‘Give me technology solutions that enable me to see the patient, talk with the patient and really provide the best data back to them and the best information to the patient for their care.”’

Security and privacy in patient data handling are crucial to maintaining trust, ensuring compliance with regulations and protecting sensitive medical information from unauthorized access or breaches. This explains the importance of data and AI governance in healthcare, according to Maniar. 

“Everything that we’re doing from a Google Cloud perspective and with our partners, holds the utmost, the highest level of scrutiny when it comes to our security and privacy, supporting organizations with their [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] compliance,” she said. “Partners, again, like Onyx, continue to enhance that as well. Part of the way that we’re seeing these solutions and tools have a role in the workplace for hospital systems and clinics is around being able to provide these types of efficiencies so that we can let doctors be doctors and caregivers be caregivers.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s Coverage of Google Cloud at HIMSS25: 

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for theCUBE’s Coverage of Google Cloud at HIMSS25. Neither Google LLC, the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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