Google Cloud announced a partnership with Odysseus Data services to launch ATLAS on GCP. ATLAS is an open-source application built and maintained by The Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) program.
The OHDSI program helps with finding inferences in health data using large scale analytics.
ATLAS is intended to provide a unified interface to standardized patient-level data converted to the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM) and conduct observational research.
It allows researchers to define patient cohorts, select analytical designs, set parameters, and execute analytical methods against data. 
Odysseus, in partnership with Google Cloud, provides users with the infrastructure for these open source tools.
GCP stores the data, aid with the management of databases and provide autoscaling.
Using Google Cloud with OHDSI tools allows users to shift their focus from implementations to insights in a cost-effective manner.
In late November last year, Google had announced its Google Cloud healthcare interoperability program.
The program is designed to help healthcare organizations:
- Understand their current interoperability maturity levels
- Map out a stepwise journey to enable interoperability
- Navigate changes and increase their readiness for the new Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rules
This new partnership with Odysseus data services adds new capabilities to the Google Cloud platform in the healthcare space.
Google Cloud already supports other open-source data platforms such as Terra, developed by Verily and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Also, Google Cloud has partnered with the National Institutes of health.
