Google Cloud has launched Gemini for healthcare, an AI platform that pulls together medical records, billing systems and insurance rules so hospitals and health insurers can run multi-step administrative work with human oversight.

Announced on Tuesday 10 November 2026, the product is available in preview in the United States. It is built on Google's Gemini agent and adds healthcare-specific tools, connectors and partner integrations, with launch customers including HCA Healthcare, Northwell Health and Highmark Health.

Read-only access to patient records

The platform connects to electronic health records through read-only integrations with Epic and Oracle Health, pulling in details such as active conditions, medications and recent lab results without writing changes back to the record. Connectivity with NextGen Healthcare is still in development.

Google says the system can synthesise a patient's records from different care settings, prepare for appointments, review prior authorisation requests, check coverage rules and help with benefit determinations. Google says clinicians lose nearly 28 hours a week to paperwork, and the platform is aimed at cutting that administrative burden.

Who can use it, and at what price

Gemini for healthcare is available to Gemini Enterprise Standard and Gemini Enterprise Plus customers, either through per-user subscriptions or pay-as-you-go pricing. Google has not disclosed prices or a date for general availability.

Other launch customers named by Google include Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Hartford HealthCare, Optum and Stanford School of Medicine. Google says the platform is built to support HIPAA compliance and that customer data is not used to train its foundation models. Read the Fierce Healthcare report and the Engadget coverage.