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Team Builds Secure Multi-Agent Healthcare Platform on Google Cloud for Hackathon

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A four-person development team built EIR, a multi-agent healthcare platform on Google Cloud, as an entry for the All Things Agentic Hackathon. The system coordinates workflows for patients, clinicians, and hospital operations teams through specialized AI agents rather than a single chatbot model. EIR uses Google Agent Runtime, Gemini, and FHIR R4 via the Google Cloud Healthcare API, with security layers including Model Armor, least-privilege agent identity, and role-based access control. The platform supports long-running recovery workflows lasting days or weeks, while deliberately avoiding autonomous diagnosis and requiring human approval for critical actions such as procurement orders. The team noted that building EIR highlighted the importance of persistent memory, identity management, observability, and human oversight in deploying agents as reliable software systems.

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