Healthcare IT Today October 17, 2019
For quite some time, mainstream tech giants like Microsoft, Apple and Google have struggled to find a secure foothold in healthcare.
One of the biggest challenges they’ve faced has been figuring out just how much investment they should make in the brick-and-mortar aspects of patient care, e.g. real-world hospitals and clinics. So far, they’ve largely stayed out of that side of the business.
However, they have plenty of reason to go hard into virtual care which, among other things, requires no long-term investment in fixed assets and can be delivered easily to the consumer base they’ve already cultivated. As a result, the news that e-retail juggernaut Amazon is going into the telehealth business must be landing with a thump in...
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