Google Cloud on Tuesday announced Gemini for healthcare in US preview, extending the Gemini agent it introduced at Gemini at Work with healthcare skills, connectors, a partner ecosystem and a governed platform, according to a blog post by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian.

Skills target provider work — longitudinal record synthesis, pre-visit chart prep, and prior authorization packets and appeals — and payer work such as medical policy review and member benefits explanations. Google named 27 connectors, including read-only Epic and Oracle Health EHR access, Optum eligibility tools, CMS coverage rules, TriZetto, Salesforce Health Cloud and Microsoft 365, plus 16 systems integrators.

Google says the platform is built to support HIPAA compliance and that customer data is not used to train its foundation models. HCA Healthcare, Northwell Health, Optum Insight, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and the American Society of Clinical Oncology are working with Google Cloud on the capabilities.

The launch is a preview, not general availability, and Google published no quantitative evaluation of accuracy or time saved in the announcement coverage. Real performance will depend on data from preview customers.