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Lumeris Is Leveraging Google Cloud's Platform To Launch AI Powered Primary Care Services
Primary care is one of the most important pillars of healthcare.
Lumeris announced today that it will be partnering with Google Cloud to build and advance a cutting-edge primary-care-as-a-service platform. Specifically, Lumeris' Tom platform will leverage Google Cloud's AI models and infrastructure to embed directly within primary care workflows in order to independently assess and execute the next best action for patients, including: automatically checking in on high risk patients and tracking recurrent complaints, scheduling follow up screenings, engaging in patient outreach, monitoring medication compliance and even working with patients to ensure emergent complaints are immediately flagged for follow up.
Google Cloud's incredible progress in AI will unlock an entirely new set of capabilities for Tom and the general primary care workflow. CEO and leader of Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian, explains that AI has transformed care and democratized healthcare access; "By combining Google Cloud's AI capabilities with Lumeris' decades of primary care insight, we can provide doctors and nurses with the AI support and insights they need to help improve care for their patients.'
Dr. David Carmouche, EVP and chief clinical transformation officer of Lumeris, comments that the company has had an opportunity over the last two decades to work with an incredible amount of healthcare data and has invested significant resources to marry disparate datasets and glean insights. Now, with Google Cloud's tools, the value from this data can be advanced to an entirely elevated level of ROI.
Aashima Gupta, global director for healthcare strategy and solutions at Google Cloud, explains that the collaboration will enable Lumeris' platform to leverage Gemini and its multimodal/voice recognition technology alongside Google Cloud's wider AI infrastructure; this will advance Tom's semantic search capabilities, agentic development and infrastructure needs, deep research capabilities, and most importantly, provide a highly advanced privacy and security overlay.
John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner Perkins and board member of Lumeris, comments that "the human toll of the primary care shortage is staggering—missed diagnoses, delayed treatments, and inferior outcomes…Google and Lumeris are bringing their unique capabilities together to help solve this crisis. We have both the means and the resolve to dramatically improve care for hundreds of millions of Americans.'
Indeed, the collaboration comes at a time when primary care continues face a massive physician shortage alongside mounting administrative burdens and workflow challenges. Studies have indicated that primary care will experience a projected shortage of nearly 87,000+ physicians by 2037. Surveys also show that 79% of primary care physicians report burnout, citing a variety of reasons including the lack of disconnecting from work, ever-growing patient demands and the numerous administrative metrics that they are beholden to.
This is why large companies are investing billions of dollars in primary care. For example, CVS Health has invested significant resources in its primary care business as a means to leverage its community presence and provide clinical services to customers. Walgreens also pursued a similar effort with VillageMD at one point, but faced numerous market challenges.
Indeed, in light of these challenges, many industry leaders are increasingly turning to technology with the hopes that it can help alleviate some of these burdens-- not just to expand primary care services through opening more brick-and-mortar practices, but also by helping mitigate the burden on the existing workforce. Lumeris' partnership with Google Cloud aims to do exactly this: combine its existing healthcare expertise with incredible technological advancements to scale its impact even further.
