Forbes April 18, 2018
Yesi Orihuela

Is tech’s role in healthcare a first step towards an idyllic Kurzweilian partnership between humans and machines or the beginning of an Orwellian nightmare?

As more tech companies become involved in making the American health care system more efficient, the monolith as it has existed for decades will finally be disassembled.

There are many reasons to get excited about this disruption. These new players are masters of efficiency who have looked at the costs involved with health care and understand that they can do better — much better. As Bruce Jaspen wrote in a recent Forbes article put it: “If Amazon and Buffet lift the veil on health prices, insurers are in trouble.”

Indeed.

However, the way they achieve these...

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