The First Database Of Tech Giants Collaborating With Healthcare: What Can We Learn?

We keep repeating for years that tech giants are marching into healthcare. This has become really pronounced in the past few weeks, when we hardly saw a day without a major, healthcare-related announcement from one of these companies, like Amazon’s $3.9B OneMedical acquisition, or the plans for entering the Japanese prescription drug market, but we can also mention ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok acquiring a private hospital chain for $1.5B. And it’s not only tech giants, but retail giants too, that are planning to disrupt the healthcare landscape, CVS Health just confirmed an $8B takeover of Signify Health. So what is happening and what does it mean for the future? How will the billions and billions of dollars these companies spend on establishing positions in medicine transform the ways healthcare happens? These collaborations – while never exactly kept in secret – are not mapped out, so it is almost impossible to form a picture if it is a growing trend or what kinds of healthcare providers the tech giants cooperate with. It is even harder to learn the actual scope of these cooperations, both companies and healthcare institutions communicate in the vaguest terms of their goals. These were the driving question behind the latest project of our data analysts when they started mapping out how tech giants collaborate with hospitals and what it means in terms of sharing data. What hospitals and tech giants have to offer At the current ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones AI collaboration medical technology deep learning machine learning tech giants Futu Source Type: blogs