Built on Google Cloud Platform, The National Response Portal Launches for COVID-19 Insights
What You Should Know:
National Response Portal launches to ensure healthcare providers and policymakers have access to the most up-to-date COVID-19 analytics.
The open data platform built on Google Cloud enables decision-makers in healthcare and the government to make data-driven decisions toward ending the COVID-19 crisis and restarting the economy.
SADA , a leading global business and technology
consultancy, announces the official launch of the National Response Portal (NRP),
providing critical data and analytics to aid in the COVID-19 recovery. Envisioned by HCA Healthcare and built in
collaboration with Google Cloud, the NRP enables data sharing among healthcare providers and policy makers about the
pandemic. On April 7th, HCA Healthcare announced its collaboration with SADA
and Google Cloud and intent to join the portal initiative. Community Health
Systems, Bon
Secours Mercy Health and other providers have also joined and are sharing data on the portal.
COVID-19 Situational Awareness Metrics
Given the volume of COVID-19
data being generated across the country, government and
healthcare leaders need ways to view and analyze consolidated information to
understand the current situation and anticipate what’s next. The NRP provides
healthcare organizations with COVID-19 situational
awareness metrics at county and state levels. Data is
submitted each day from hospital systems across the United States and will
ultimately provide insights into ICU bed supply and utilization; ventilator
supply and utilization; COVID-19 test results; and
healthy patients who have been discharged. All data being
shared on the portal will be structured in a manner to comply with HIPAA and
other applicable restrictions.
“Even
as some locations are already passing through the initial case surge, the path
forward — moving from coping with the crisis to ending it and restarting the
economy — remains largely
uncharted. Our first goal is to arm healthcare administrators and government
officials with data-driven insights to navigate the road
ahead,” said Michael Ames, Senior Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences,
SADA. “The NRP will provide decision-makers with rich and timely data to understand how policy changes and social behaviors
impact efforts to end the crisis.”
The platform
will also leverage datasets, such as social distancing policy scores, traffic
and social mobility patterns, to help shed light on how public policy and
social behavior intersect and affect the spread of the disease.
“We are
delighted with the rapid growth and evolution of the National Response Portal
as it helps guide us from surge, to restart and recovery,” said Dr. Edmund
Jackson, the Chief Data...
