Healthcare IT Today January 3, 2020
Patient data has always been in demand, particularly among pharmas and medical research organizations that need it to do their daily business. However, a new and very aggressive wave of healthcare data buyers has emerged: tech organizations are hungrily seeking this data, which they must acquire if they hope to develop powerful specialized analytics tools providers are beginning to demand.
Some of this frenzy is doubtless being driven by moves made by tech industry giants like Google, which not only spent more than $2 billion to acquire Fitbit (and obviously, its stream of consumer wearables data), but also its high-profile data crunching agreement with health system Ascension. But things have been moving in this direction for several years at least....
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