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Google Cloud Healthcare Finops

FOCUS-aligned FinOps for Cloud Healthcare API: usage-based billing across FHIR, HL7v2, DICOM, and de-identification meters, plus Consent Management per-active-consent fees. Billing flows through Google Cloud Billing with detailed export to BigQuery for cost attribution. Major cost drivers are FHIR search operations (high data scan volume), DICOM egress during imaging retrieval, bulk export jobs, and de-identification transformation GUs. Cost optimization focuses on efficient FHIR search patterns, bulk import/export over per-record API calls, and tiered de-identification volume management.

Google Cloud Healthcare Finops is the FinOps profile for Google Cloud Healthcare on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 13 billable meters, billed in USD, on a monthly cycle, and pricing category pay-as-you-go.

The profile maps 7 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Healthcare, FHIR, HL7v2, DICOM, and Google Cloud.

Category: Healthcare Data Platform Pricing: Pay-As-You-Go Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
HealthcareFHIRHL7v2DICOMGoogle CloudFinOpsFOCUSHIPAA

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsageTaxAdjustmentCredit

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
Google LLC
ProviderName
Google Cloud
PublisherName
Google LLC
ServiceCategory
Healthcare / Medical Data
ServiceName
Cloud Healthcare API

Meters

fhir_storage
Unit: GB-month
FHIR resource storage billed per GB-month
fhir_read_ops
Unit: GB
Data volume processed by FHIR read operations
fhir_write_ops
Unit: GB
Data volume processed by FHIR write operations (create/update/delete)
fhir_search_ops
Unit: GB
Data volume scanned by FHIR search operations
fhir_bulk_export
Unit: GB
Data volume exported from FHIR stores to Cloud Storage or BigQuery
hl7v2_storage
Unit: GB-month
HL7v2 message storage billed per GB-month
hl7v2_ingest_ops
Unit: GB
Raw byte volume of HL7v2 messages ingested
dicom_storage
Unit: GB-month
DICOM imaging file storage billed per GB-month
dicom_ops
Unit: GB
DICOM file data volume processed by DICOMweb operations (STOW-RS/WADO-RS/QIDO-RS)
deidentify_inspect_gu
Unit: GU
Gigabyte Units of data inspected for PHI/PII during de-identification
deidentify_transform_gu
Unit: GU
Gigabyte Units of data transformed/redacted during de-identification
consent_patient_monthly
Unit: consent-month
Active Patient consent records billed per consent per month
consent_admin_policy_monthly
Unit: policy-month
Active Admin policy records billed per policy per month

Sources