OneZero January 27, 2020
Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon are all getting involved in your health care. Here’s why.
As U.S. presidential hopefuls put forth policy proposals to fix America’s health care system, tech giants like Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook are trying to create their own solutions. The situation is so bad that some think Big Tech’s intervention might be welcome.
“Everyone hates the health care system,” says John Wilbanks, chief commons officer at Sage Bionetworks, a Seattle-based nonprofit that promotes open science and patient engagement in research. “It’s so bad that the vast majority of interventions will make it better from an experience perspective,” he says. “It might not be more effective, but the experience will be better.”
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