Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft target niche sectors of healthcare

Healthcare players are being forced to move on their digital transformation efforts, and Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are lending their tech-savviness to become partners for the job.

 Apple and Amazon’s moves in health signal a coming transformation

The world’s biggest tech firms see an opportunity in health care, which could mean empowered patients, better diagnosis of disease and lower costs.

 Apple, Google, Amazon And The $9 Trillion Battle Over The Future Of HealthTech: Former Apple CEO John Sculley

But as big as it is, big tech can’t eat the $9 trillion healthtech pie on its own.

 Big Tech In Medicine: How Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM & NVIDIA Disrupt Healthcare

Their weight, level of involvement, size of investment and even their approach vary, but they all make waves in healthcare. Given their background, they all focus on the technological side of medicine, and here’s the only bit I’m missing from their side: patient centricity. But just as healthcare is complex and requires as much technology as empathy and care, I’m sure patient focus and even involvement will inevitably come.

 Big Tech Won’t Make Health Care Any Better

Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed in 2019 that his company’s greatest achievement will be “about health.” But the pandemic has shown that Big Tech’s involvement in health care is all about data collection.

 Credit to Tech’s Pandemic Leadership

America’s tech companies have been leading the way for how large employers should aid in the country’s pandemic response.

 Even Tech Giants Are Flummoxed By Healthcare

Some of the smartest people in business and technology have taken up the challenge to "fix healthcare" in America and have fallen short. Companies such as Google, IBM, Walgreens and Microsoft have waded into large ventures that did not succeed. Most recently, some of the nation's best brains from Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase disbanded their Haven Healthcare project less than three years after its launch.

 How health care is turning into a consumer product

How health care is turning into a consumer product.

 Is ‘Femtech’ the Next Big Thing in Health Care?

Start-ups and tech companies are creating products to address women’s health care needs. It’s still a small segment of the market, but growing.

 What America’s largest technology firms are investing in

Their focus is on the metaverse, cars and health care.

 Why Big Tech Companies Won’t Solve Healthcare’s Biggest Challenges

Based on their past innovations (and earnings), there are very few things Apple and Google can’t do. One of those things, I predict, will be transforming healthcare.

 Will Silicon Valley be your healthcare provider one day? It's very likely

Apple tends to command greater trust among its billion users than any of its big tech competitors, as its business model doesn’t require exploiting user data through advertising. Crucially, Apple has historically resisted significant pressure from governments in order to protect its users’ data

As tech companies move into health care, here’s what to watch...

From Amazon and Apple opening clinics to Uber launching a medical transit program, technology giants spent 2018 moving into the health care space. Many of these initiatives are still in very early stages...

Google Health is being dismantled, but Big Tech’s quixotic health ambitions persist

Don't think of it as a death. Think of it as yet another transition in Big Tech's seemingly never-ending quest to reshape American health care.

Health Care Is the Next Battleground for Big Tech

Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon are all getting involved in your health care. Here’s why.

Hospitals Give Tech Giants Access to Detailed Medical Records

Deals with Microsoft, IBM and Google reveal the power medical providers have in deciding how patients’ sensitive health data is shared.

How Amazon Could Succeed in Overturning the Old Healthcare Model

It’s not the first time a group of über-wealthy, revolutionary-minded individuals have plotted to overthrow a tyrannical system. But references to America’s founding fathers aside, one outstanding question remains: How will these visionaries slay the merciless beast that the American healthcare system has become?

How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care

Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants have transformed the way billions of us communicate, shop, socialize and work. Now, as consumers, medical centers and insurers increasingly embrace health-tracking apps, tech companies want a bigger share of the more than $3 trillion spent annually on health care in the United States, too. The Apple Heart Study reflects that intensified effort.

How Much Should Big Tech Know About Our Personal Health Data And History?

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ben Moskowitz, director of Consumer Reports Digital Lab, about big tech's move into the health care industry and whether we can preserve our digital privacy.

How the “Big 4” Tech Companies Are Leading Healthcare Innovation

... each of the “Big 4” tech companies are leveraging their own core business strengths to reinvent healthcare by developing and collaborating on new tools for patients, care providers, and insurers that will position them for healthcare domination.

Is healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms?

With Google Health and Apple both reported to be, respectively, closing down and scaling back their healthcare efforts, it's worth asking just how disruptive consumer technology companies can be in this hugely complex and fragmented industry.

Reducing healthcare costs doesn't require Bezos/Buffett/Dimon magic: Every other country already knows how

"The ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy," Buffett said in the statement. "Our group does not come to this problem with answers. But we also do not accept it as inevitable."

The Real Trouble With Silicon Valley

The toxicity of the web is peanuts compared with Big Tech’s failure to remake the physical world.

What Big Tech Wants Out of the Pandemic

The firms are all too eager to help the government manage the coronavirus crisis.

What Health Care Can Learn From Amazon

A doctor rarely praises an electronic health-record system for being easy to use or improving care.

Why Apple, Amazon, and Google are making big health care moves

Silicon Valley wants to disrupt your health care.

Why health companies are branding themselves as tech companies

Branding a startup as a technology outfit, rather than a health care business, may signal to consumers that the company intends to take the perceived experience of using the service or product seriously while developing a consumer-oriented approach that has so far eluded health care incumbents.

Why tech companies still haven’t fixed our ‘broken’ healthcare system

Changing the status quo in a huge, slow-moving industry won’t be easy—it hasn’t been so far. But if we direct our energy, resources, and creativity toward addressing the systemic root issues in healthcare instead of surface-level symptoms, we will make progress toward the change we all want to see.

You Don’t Want Facebook Involved With Your Health Care

Big tech companies want to share data about you with your doctors.

‘Big Tech’ isn’t one big monopoly – it’s 5 companies all in different businesses

Understanding these companies in their proper business contexts makes it easier to understand their power in the marketplace and society at large. It also suggests ways to assess, regulate and manage that power to protect competition and even democracy itself.