Flex expands health-tech portfolio with G-Cloud

The company, which has a manufacturing unit in Sriperumbudur, has expanded its service offerings for the healthcare industry with a new digital health offering. BrightInsight is a secure, managed services solution built on Google Cloud Platform that can aggregate data and deliver real-time insights to optimise the value of connected drug, device or combination products.

The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that applying big-data strategies to better inform healthcare-related decision making could generate up to $100 billion in value annually across the US healthcare system. Medical devices today collect massive amounts of data, which creates enormous potential for a rapid feedback loop that can help improve patient care and enhance drug therapy delivery and management. To make an impact, the data needs to be aggregated from several apps and stand-alone devices, as well as analysed to provide actionable insights. 

BrightInsight helps solve such challenges and helps patients and health care professionals, from physicians to medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers, to better understand medical device usage and medication adherence, and streamline the product development and certification process.

“We saw the need for a secure cloud platform designed to support highly-regulated connected drug delivery and medical devices, going beyond simple connectivity to deliver real-time intelligence and actionable insights,” said Kal Patel, MD, senior vice president of Digital Health for Flex. “With our 20 years of experience operating in global regulated medical environments, and having deployed more than 75 regulated hardware and software medical products, Flex can combine our cross-industry capabilities to simplify our customers’ digital transformation.” 

Flex is partnering with Google Cloud to deliver insights through customizable analytics dashboards fuelled by Google Cloud’s advanced machine learning and AI capabilities. This enables BrightInsight to securely store and gain insights from health information, without pharma and medical technology customers having to manage the underlying infrastructure.