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GoodRx connects prescription prices to Gemini for healthcare preview
GoodRx has integrated its prescription pricing and savings information with Google Cloud’s Gemini for healthcare. The healthcare AI product is available in preview in the United States.
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GoodRx has connected its prescription pricing and savings information to Google Cloud’s Gemini for healthcare, according to a Nov. 10 announcement from the prescription access company. The integration uses the Model Context Protocol, or MCP, to let healthcare enterprises retrieve the information inside the AI product. Gemini for healthcare became available in preview in the United States on the same day.
Finding prescription savings
Healthcare teams can ask natural-language questions about prescription affordability and compare pharmacy prices by medication, quantity and location. The information covers savings options for brand-name and generic medications at pharmacies nationwide.
The integration also provides guidance on how patients can access the savings at a pharmacy. Teams can use the pricing information to help patients identify options without leaving their AI workflow.
Healthcare providers can also find pharmaceutical manufacturer self-pay programs offered through GoodRx when they ask about prescription costs and savings. The company said this gives GoodRx another way to support healthcare providers as they help patients make treatment decisions.
Plans for other platforms
Google Cloud is the first deployment partner for the MCP integration. GoodRx says the integration is designed to support additional AI platforms over time, and the company is working on an open, reusable framework to extend its prescription access and affordability services.
Nitin Shingate, GoodRx’s chief technology officer, said the company wants to bring pricing and savings information into workflows at the point when healthcare decisions are made. He described the integration as a foundation for expanding those capabilities across other AI systems.
The healthcare AI product
Google Cloud announced the healthcare product as a version of its Gemini agent tailored to care and operations teams. It is intended for providers and health plans and connects to clinical, financial and administrative systems, as well as outside sources of healthcare information.
Its connectors include read integrations with electronic health record systems from Epic and Oracle Health. Those integrations can pull information such as active conditions, medications and recent laboratory results into a workflow without writing back to the record.
Other integrations address administrative work: Optum’s network eligibility and coordination-of-benefits services are in limited release and testing with the product. Google also describes connections for looking up drug terminology, coverage information and clinical guidelines.
The product will be available to Gemini Enterprise Standard and Gemini Enterprise Plus customers. Organizations can choose between per-user subscriptions and pay-as-you-go pricing.
Data and oversight
Google Cloud says clinical data, prompts and generated outputs remain within an organization’s governed environment and are not used to train or fine-tune its foundation models. The product is built to support HIPAA compliance and includes privacy controls and human oversight.
According to the company, responses are grounded in patient records, plan policies and an organization’s approved guidelines and evidence. Outputs include traceable citations, and audit logging gives clinical, compliance and information technology leaders visibility into use of the system.