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Cloud Healthcare API overview

Understand key concepts and the high-level functionality of the Cloud Healthcare API.
Projects, datasets, and data stores

Learn about the relationship between Google Cloud projects, Cloud Healthcare API datasets, and Cloud Healthcare API data stores.
API structure

Understand the structure of Cloud Healthcare API paths and operations and how they can be used to access and manage data.
Regions

See the list of Google Cloud regions where the Cloud Healthcare API is supported and how the location of your dataset affects other parts of the Cloud Healthcare API.
DICOM

Learn about how the Cloud Healthcare API lets you store, access, and process medical images and how the Cloud Healthcare API implements the DICOMweb standard.
FHIR overview

Learn about how the Cloud Healthcare API lets you store, access, and process electronic medical information using FHIR.
FHIR import

Choose a method for importing FHIR resources into the Cloud Healthcare API.
FHIR resource references

Learn about what FHIR stores support for FHIR resource references.
FHIR extensions

Learn about what FHIR stores support for FHIR extensions.
HL7v2

Learn about how the Cloud Healthcare API lets you store, access, and process clinical messages using HL7v2.
Data de-identification

Understand how the Cloud Healthcare API de-identifies sensitive information in FHIR and DICOM data.
Healthcare Natural Language API

Learn about the Healthcare Natural Language API, which extracts critical clinical information from medical text.
Access control with IAM

Learn about how the Cloud Healthcare API uses Identity and Access Management permissions and roles.
Pub/Sub notifications

Learn about how the Cloud Healthcare API uses Pub/Sub messaging to send notifications for changes to DICOM instances, FHIR resources, and HL7v2 messages.
Consent and privacy overview

Learn about managing consent and privacy using the Consent Management API.
Consent Management API data model

Learn about the Consent Management API data model.

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