Modern Healthcare August 27, 2018
Rachel Z. Arndt

As tech giants start to forge paths into healthcare, they stand to put pressure on established healthcare IT firms to open up their systems and adopt data standards.

But change won’t happen overnight, and these outsiders will need to adjust too, gaining access to healthcare data and making it useful while potentially moving at a slower pace than they’re used to.

Recently, six tech giants—Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Oracle and Salesforce—pledged to work towards greater interoperability in healthcare, especially related to cloud- and AI-based technologies.

“They’re not the first to try to solve this problem of interoperability, and to date, no one’s had a lot of success,” said Daniel Farris, a partner and chair of the technology...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Cloud, EMR / EHR, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Technology, Trends
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