Big Tech Initiatives in Healthcare Coming from Many Directions

I have posted a number of notes about the increasing role of Big Tech in healthcare. It's time to take a look at the big picture and helpful in this regard is a SWOT table that was included in a recent article about this topic (see:BIG TECH IN HEALTHCARE). It was compiled byBusiness Insider Intelligence and is presented below:After having reviewed the bulleted items in the four columns for Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, I was impressed by the breadth and complexity of the list. For me, all of this this distills into the following Big Tech initiatives in healthcare:Home monitoring with wearables for wellness and diagnosis (see, for example: The Evolution of"Wearable Health Ecosystems" and Associated Partnerships)..AI and data analytics (see, for example:Three Examples of Predictive Analytics in Clinical Practice;Analysis of the Failure of IBM's Watson; Vertical Integration Backfires).Natural language processing of EHR records (see, for example:Amazon Launches New Medical Record Language Processing Service).Retail prescription drug sales (see, for example:Amazon-PillPack Pushes Against CVS with Prescription Deliveries; Also Seeking PBM Status). Data collection for wellness research (see, for example:Google Said to Be Seeking Data and B-to-B Relationships with Fitbit Purchase;Apple Getting Traction with Its App to Access EHR Records with iPhones).Software to increase efficiency of hospital operations (seefor example: Dictating EHR ...
Source: Lab Soft News - Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Tags: AI Diagnostics Electronic Health Record (EHR) Health Wearable Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Medical Consumerism Predictive Analytics Preventive Medicine Source Type: blogs