Health Populi July 31, 2018
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

**While Amazon and Google get lots of positive PR and media attention as major healthcare industry disruptors, don’t forget about the two big “W’s,” Walgreens and Walmart, in the healthcare innovator mix.

I recently read The Four in which Scott Galloway explains the dominance of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook in consumers’ everyday lives. These four tech-behemoths each have their particular designs on healthcare innovation, or disruption in the eyes of, say, Epic and Cerner working on health IT systems, or GE and IBM if you’ve been pioneers in health data or big-iron information technology.

Healthcare is complicated, President Trump recognized in late February 2017, just a few weeks after the POTUS took his seat in the Oval Office.

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Topics: Employer, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Pharma, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Retail care, Retailer, Technology, Trends
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