Google is the latest big tech company to launch a healthcare-specific agentic AI platform.

Agentic AI are systems that can act independently and make complex decisions with minimal human oversight. Healthcare has invested heavily in agentic AI in recent years, as the tech has shown promise for alleviating administrative burden — a top contributor to clinician burnout — and automating workflows like prior authorization or revenue cycle management.

Tech giants like Anthropic, OpenAI and now Google have taken note, all launching specialized AI tools for the healthcare sector this year.

Google says its new platform, developed with the help of clinicians and insurers, can execute clinical and administrative tasks while meeting the complex privacy and security standards that the sector must comply with.

It also says its approach will help reduce administrative burden and save clinicians time, key considerations in a sector that faces ongoing workforce shortages and persistent burnout. Google also touts the platform’s ability to advance interoperability and ease data fragmentation challenges.

“The fundamental challenge in healthcare isn't a lack of information — it's the immense friction of making that data actionable across a highly regulated ecosystem," Thomas Kurian, CEO at Google Cloud, said in the announcement.

Google Cloud’s new platform relies on Google's own agentic system, Gemini, alongside an ecosystem of outside agents and data sources. The platform includes a “library of connectors,” according to the announcement, offering direct access to integrations with Epic’s and Oracle’s EHR systems, as well as hookups to federal standards from the CMS and the National Provider Identifier registry.

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