Tech Giants in Healthcare
Last updated on 2020-05-27
About the Book
Big tech companies like Amazon, Google/Alphabet, Apple, IBM and Microsoft are taking their move into healthcare and medicine seriously. They are developing new, health-related features on their platforms. They are also teaming up with research institutions and developers to create new tools for patients, doctors and other stakeholder in medicine – and they are heavily investing in partnerships with start-ups or launching new ventures. This guide details how and why the move of the big tech companies happens to healthcare.
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An ambitious doctor of medicine and journalist covering the digital health, gaming and tech industries. Strong concentration, determination and attention to details are defining features. Has an insatiable interest in science, technology and video games and is always eager to gather new knowledge.
Table of Contents
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple and Other Tech Companies Are Aiming for New Horizons. 5
1. The Googlization of Healthcare. 6
a) The Alphabet of Investment 7
b) Patents, partnerships, and collaborations. 7
e) Google and artificial intelligence: Google A.I. and Deepmind. 9
g) Google Fit and Wear OS by Google. 12
The Health&Tech, alias HIT Index. 12
2. Apple’s soft(wared) entering. 13
a) Apple Health & HealthKit 14
3. Microsoft: operating a system for healthcare?. 17
a) Healthcare NExT and artificial intelligence. 18
b) Cloud computing services for healthcare. 19
c) Microsoft Genomics and projects in precision medicine. 20
d) Bringing more cybersecurity in healthcare. 21
e) Hololens and mixed reality. 21
4. The Amazon-ing of healthcare. 22
a) Expectations about disrupting pharma. 23
b) Artificial intelligence solutions, Amazon Web Services, and healthcare. 24
c) Amazon Alexa as the future health chatbot 25
6) IBM and artificial intelligence. 26
a) IBM Watson for Genomics. 28
b) IBM Watson for Oncology. 28
7) Uber and medical transportation. 30
9) Sony for better surgery and medical education. 31
10) Intel and predictive analytics in healthcare. 31
11) Facebook and medical data. 32
12) Alibaba for pharmacy service and A.I. 32
Tech companies’ worst nightmares: privacy issues, compliance, ethics. 32
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