Becker's Healthcare February 7, 2019
Jessica Kim Cohen

It’s been 15 years since Facebook launched on Feb. 4, 2004.

Facebook has since amassed 2.3 billion monthly active users, and serves as the parent company of two other popular social media companies: Instagram and WhatsApp. But it’s more than a social network: Facebook is one of what many today refer to as the 21st century’s “big five” tech companies, going head-to-head with traditional technology vendors like Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft.

Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s founder, chairman and CEO, has made healthcare one of his personal initiatives. Mr. Zuckerberg launched the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, MD, in 2015 with the mission to cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century....

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