Healthcare DIVE July 18, 2018
Dive Brief:
- Walmart and Microsoft announced a five-year strategic partnership aimed at overhauling the retail experience using cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
- The companies will cooperate on the assessment, development and support phase of moving hundreds of existing applications to cloud native architectures. They also plan to create a global IoT platform to coordinate shipping and supply chain activities.
- The deal, while broader than just healthcare, comes as both companies are making inroads into the industry and facing growing competition from online retail giant Amazon.
Cloud computing in particular is big in health IT, with the global market expected to hit $35 billion by 2022. The supply chain aspect...