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How Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, & Amazon Are Battling For
The $8.3T Market
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Key Findings
Overview of big tech companies’ activities in healthcare
Both investor and executive attention Big tech companies took new steps to increase their market opportunity in healthcare…
to healthcare peaked over the last
• Facebook launched a preventative health solution in the US and a provider search tool to help
year…
users find affordable care in their communities. Meanwhile, the company’s Oculus team is
• Earnings calls mentions of working with teaching hospitals to deploy VR-based medical education tools.
“healthcare” peaked in 2020 as the
• Apple updated Watch and iOS to capture even more health metrics, including blood oxygen
businesses grappled with protecting
level, and created a data sharing feature so users can share medical data with providers. The
their workforces during the pandemic.
company also launched a subscription-based streaming platform with exercise classes.
• Venture capital funding to healthcare
• Microsoft dropped $19.7B to acquire Nuance, a leader in conversational AI for healthcare. The
companies has also surged. In fact,
company also launched Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, a tech stack for enterprise healthcare
healthcare funding had a record
organizations that combines AI, automation, and low-code app development.
quarter in Q1’21, where companies
raised a total of $31.6B. • Google launched a camera-based search tool that uses AI to diagnose skin conditions. The
company also launched an EHR search solution for providers, an interoperability solution for
• Big tech has invested in deals worth a
payers, and a return-to-work test and trace program for employers.
cumulative $6.8B since the start of
2020. • Amazon launched Amazon Care, Amazon Pharmacy, and AmazonDx in the past year, all
consumer-focused healthcare services. The company also unveiled AWS for Health, a suite built
to support data science efforts within enterprise healthcare organizations.
Note: “Big Tech” includes Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. 7
Market
Drivers
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BIG TECH IN HEALTHCARE: WHY NOW?
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Why? Because healthcare is an $8.3T
industry...and growing
Globally, healthcare spend climbed to $8.3T
by the close of 2018.
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The US leads in excessive spending at $3.8T
The US healthcare industry, which
accounts for 45% of total global health
expenditures — or $3.8T — is
underperforming compared to other
developed nations and has become a
target for disruption.
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Cost reduction pressure is driving healthcare out
of the hospital
Distribution of Inpatient vs. Outpatient Revenues
Healthcare revenue continues its decades- 1995 –2018
Outpatient Inpatient
long march out of the hospital and into 100%
outpatient markets, where the barrier to entry
90%
is far lower.
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As consumers seek care in an increasingly
oversaturated ambulatory market, FAMGA 60%
companies are positioning themselves to 50%
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New entrants are meeting patients where they
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…while virtual care vendors are scaling digital
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Covid-19 has accelerated healthcare’s digital
transformation…
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…especially in driving increased adoption of
new digital health tools
Use of newer digital health
technologies is continuing to
grow.
Adoption of telehealth,
wearables, and digital health
tracking surged in 2020.
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Where Big Tech
Is Making
Moves
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WHAT ADVANTAGES DO TECH GIANTS BRING?
1.6B+ Facebook
1.5B Windows 1.65B Active 1.85B 5.5B Searches
200M+ Prime DAU
Users Devices Daily Active Users (DAU) per Day
Members
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…as well as massive data and technology
capabilities
Which means…
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FAMGA are also some of the world’s most
valuable and recognized brands
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MARKET DRIVERS
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Facebook
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EXECUTIVE’S PERSPECTIVE: FACEBOOK
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WHERE FACEBOOK IS FOCUSING
BUILDING CONSUMER TRUST IN INCREASING OCULUS AND PORTAL ESTABLISHING FACEBOOK CREDIBILITY
FACEBOOK DEVICE SALES IN HEALTHCARE AI
Consumers turn to the internet for New consumer devices are finding Industry incumbents are partnering
health information, but distrust a home in supporting health- with tech giants to accelerate use of
what they see on social media. related use cases. Facebook sees data and AI. The Facebook AI
Facebook is working to remediate opportunities for Oculus and Portal Research lab is working on multiple
its reputation through partnerships within the industry. healthcare initiatives.
and fact-checking.
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Theme 1: Building consumer trust in
Facebook
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THEME 1: CONSUMER TRUST
100M people across 27 countries have Facebook’s suicide prevention algorithm Facebook, Twitter, and Google have partnered
signed up to get notifications about has flagged 1,000+ wellness checks to first to offer resources to those struggling with
local blood donation drives. responders. substance misuse.
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THEME 1: CONSUMER TRUST
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THEME 1: CONSUMER TRUST
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THEME 2: FACEBOOKS HEALTHCARE DEVICE PLAYS: OCULUS
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THEME 2: FACEBOOKS HEALTHCARE DEVICE PLAYS: PORTAL
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THEME 2: FACEBOOKS HEALTHCARE DEVICE PLAYS: SMARTWATCH
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Theme 3: Establishing Facebook’s credibility
in healthcare AI
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THEME 3: HEALTHCARE AI
With partners at NYU Langone, the lauded Facebook AI FAIR also developed models that can generate equally accurate
Research (FAIR) lab developed machine learning models and detailed MRIs using about a quarter of the raw data
that could interpret x-rays to help doctors predict how a traditionally required for a full MRI. Since less data is required,
patient’s Covid-19 condition may progress. One aimed to MRI scans can run nearly 4x faster. A team of independent
predict patient deterioration, while the other predicted radiologists compared the AI-generated images with
how much supplemental oxygen patient might need. traditionally captured images and could not tell which were
created using the new method.
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THEME 3: HEALTHCARE AI
The team is reporting promising results. While prior studies have shown
that spoken words can be decoded from signals recorded from the surface
of the brain, decoding quality has been limited, with error rates north of 60%
for 100-word vocabularies. UCSF’s results demonstrated an average error
rate as low as 3% when tested with vocabularies of up to 300 words.
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Key takeaways & implications
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KEY TAKEAWAYS & IMPLICATIONS
Takeaways Consumers are wary of sharing health data with There is established demand for smart Facebook’s research teams are actively
Facebook or trusting health information on the devices in healthcare — with incumbents pursuing healthcare partnerships — though
social media giant’s platform — a problem that showing a willingness to subsidize the cost the tech giant lacks a broader strategy that
will limit its ability to pursue a meaningful on behalf of patients in some cases. might lead to a commercial application of its
healthcare strategy. The company is working to Facebook is actively cultivating AR/VR, smart efforts. It also lacks the data privacy
repair that reputation through customer-facing speakers, and potentially wearable devices to safeguards needed to pursue SDOH
industry partnerships. compete in this market. research.
Implications Expect Facebook to ramp up efforts at combating Expect Facebook to pursue its own device Facebook needs to earn the trust of
health-related misinformation by creating subsidy partnerships within the industry. enterprise healthcare organizations.
dedicated communications channels for trusted Facebook will continue investing in AR/VR- Facebook’s biggest opportunity to make an
partners. For those interested, Facebook could based digital therapeutics and publishing impact is in SDOH research, but that work
become a valuable patient engagement partner. research derived from its existing Portal cannot scale until it proves to be a valuable,
partnerships. and trustworthy, partner in other areas.
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Apple
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WHERE APPLE IS FOCUSING
ORCHESTRATING HEALTH DATA SHARING EXPANDING APPLE WATCH SALES WITH ESTABLISHING APPLE’S HEALTH AND
FOR APPLE CUSTOMERS SUBSIDY PARNTERSHIPS WELLNESS SERVICES
Apple is going far beyond connecting With iPhone, Apple invented and scaled Apple is actively exploring how it
consumers to their medical records. The subsidized device sales as a business might bring its own health and
company wants to aggregate data, secure model. Today, the company is pursuing wellness services directly to
it, create novel data points of its own, and the same strategy for Watch, working consumers.
then orchestrate consumer-direct data with payers to blunt the sticker shock of
sharing with clinicians and researchers. Watch for members.
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EXECUTIVE’S PERSPECTIVE: APPLE
“If you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the
question: ‘What was Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind?’ it will be
about health. We're democratizing it. We're taking what has been with the
institutions and empowering the individual to manage their health.
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Theme 1: Orchestrating health data sharing
for Apple customers
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THEME 1: APPLE HEALTH DATA ORCHESTRATION
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THEME 1: APPLE HEALTH DATA ORCHESTRATION
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THEME 1: APPLE HEALTH DATA ORCHESTRATION
Apple recently announced that consumers using its Health app will be able to securely share
their health information with their doctors or family members. Meanwhile, researchers continue
to leverage ResearchKit to engage with participants.
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Theme 2: Expanding Apple Watch sales with
subsidy partnerships
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THEME 2: SUBSIDY DEALS FOR WATCH
Aetna insurance customers can Medicare Advantage insurer UnitedHealthcare is offering Motion
now earn a free Apple Watch with startup Devoted Health first to enrollees a six-month Apple Fitness+
new Attain wellness program subsidize Apple Watch subscription and a free Apple Watch
May 2, 2019 October 7, 2019 December 19, 2020
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Theme 3: Establishing Apple’s health and
wellness services
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THEME 3: APPLE HEALTH AND WELLNESS SERVICES
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KEY TAKEAWAYS & IMPLICATIONS
Theme Orchestrating health data sharing for Apple customers Expanding Watch sales with subsidy partnerships Establishing Apple’s health and wellness services
Takeaways Apple has been a leader in its effort to make health Apple is negotiating with health plans to offer Apple launched Fitness+ to bring workout content
data easier for consumers to access. It launched subsidized Apple Watches to members. The to users for a monthly subscription fee. Like Watch,
Health Record in 2018 so consumers can store their company has established an active subsidy the company is accelerating sales through subsidy
medical records in iOS. Apple recently announced that arrangement for iPhone and is working to partnerships with payers. More recently, Apple
customers will be able to share those records with replicate that for Watch. The company has seen experimented with building its own virtual care
caregivers and other healthcare providers. Apple is moderate interest, landing agreements with 2 of services.
generating its own health data through iOS and Watch the largest payers in the nation, Aetna and
sensors and algorithms. UnitedHealthcare.
Implications Apple will engineer an increasingly comprehensive Expect Apple and Google to make smartwatches Apple could be the next big tech vendor directly
picture of consumer health. With medical record data a standard member benefit. Subsidized competing with care providers. Today, Amazon is
on hand, consumers can seek care from new locations, smartwatches are going mainstream. Beyond the only big tech vendor offering health services to
locally or virtually. Apple will continue to lead in this Apple, Google has also inked deals with Anthem consumers. That could quickly change as Apple
space, building sensors, algorithms, and apps to and BCBSA to bring free or heavily discounted ramps up its subscription business, if it can mature
engage consumers on health and wellness. smartwatches to members. its virtual care strategy.
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Microsoft
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EXECUTIVE’S PERSPECTIVE: MICROSOFT
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WHERE MICROSOFT IS FOCUSING
GROWING ENTERPRISE SALES WITH BUILDING CREDIBILITY WITH HEALTHCARE CULTIVATING DEMAND FOR MAGIC
MICROSOFT CLOUD FOR HEALTHCARE AI RESEARCH LEAP AND KINECT IN HEALTHCARE
Healthcare organizations were late to AI has the potential to automate Innovation in consumer
cloud migration, but demand has administrative tasks and close critical electronics is supporting a wide
ramped up with the proliferation of insight gaps across the healthcare range of use cases in digital
industry cloud offerings. Microsoft is value chain. Microsoft is building a health. Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect
investing heavily to ensure its well- data processing pipeline purpose built and HoloLens are both finding
positioned in the emerging market. to support this transformation. applications in healthcare.
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Theme 1: Growing enterprise sales with
Microsoft Cloud for healthcare
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THEME 1: MICROSOFT’S HEALTH CLOUD PLAYS
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THEME 1: MICROSOFT’S HEALTH CLOUD PLAYS
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THEME 1: MICROSOFT’S HEALTH CLOUD PLAYS
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THEME 1: MICROSOFT’S HEALTH CLOUD PLAYS
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Theme 2: Building credibility with healthcare
AI research
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THEME 2: MICROSOFT’S AI IN HEALTHCARE EFFORTS
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THEME 2: MICROSOFT’S AI IN HEALTHCARE EFFORTS
Researchers identified racial bias in a widely used EHR vendor Epic released an AI tool that predicts the likelihood
algorithm published by Optum. The authors estimated of no-shows to assist practices making targeted overbooking
that the racial bias discovered reduces the number of decisions. Potential for explicit discrimination was obvious
Black patients identified for extra care by more than because the predictive model included personal characteristics
half. that could result in healthcare resources being systematically
diverted from individuals who are already marginalized.
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THEME 2: MICROSOFT’S AI IN HEALTHCARE EFFORTS
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Theme 3: Cultivating demand for Magic Leap
and Kinect in healthcare
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THEME 3: EXTENDING HEALTH INNOVATION WITH SMART DEVICES
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THEME 3: EXTENDING HEALTH INNOVATION WITH SMART DEVICES
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Key takeaways & implications
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KEY TAKEAWAYS & IMPLICATIONS
Takeaways Microsoft is building an innovation platform for Traditional health IT vendors and enterprise Microsoft lacks a wearable, though it is
enterprise by combining Power Platform, Azure, and incumbents are fielding models that perform poorly in rumored to be exploring its options in that
Teams to support AI, automation, and low-code app the wild, lack clinical explainability, and in many cases space. Instead, Microsoft is focused on
development efforts. This tech stack is HITRUST- are biased toward already disadvantaged members of growing its Azure Kinect and HoloLens
certified and FHIR-enabled and comes with society. Microsoft is investing and partnering to device sales. Healthcare vendors have the
architecture plans to address common innovation position itself as a leader in how to implement AI potential to be an active buyer if the ROI
use cases in healthcare. safely and fairly in healthcare. can be proven.
Implications Expect Microsoft to rapidly expand its market Microsoft will differentiate on AI strategy and Microsoft will work to prove the ROI in
position supporting enterprise health innovation. governance, rather than just building more tools. For AR/VR and IoT smart cameras. To build
Microsoft is the best-positioned big tech vendor to several years, cloud providers have been competing enterprise demand for its devices, it will
support digital transformation efforts among for enterprise healthcare market share by lowering the cultivate a marketplace of purpose-built
enterprise healthcare organizations. Its acquisition technical barriers to adopt AI and automation. Expect apps and mature its development
of Nuance will further accelerate its already strong the next generation of tools to focus on responsible AI, environment to cater to build or buy
momentum. model monitoring, and data governance needs. strategies in AR/VR and smart cameras.
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Google
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EXECUTIVE’S PERSPECTIVE: GOOGLE
“Healthcare offers the biggest potential over the next 5 to 10 years for
using artificial intelligence to improve outcome.”
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WHERE GOOGLE IS FOCUSING
CREATING CONSUMER DEMAND FOR GOOGLE GROWING ENTERPRISE SALES WITH GOOGLE BUILDING BRAND DIFFERENTIATION WITH
PRODUCTS WITH HEALTH FEATURES CLOUD FOR HEALTHCARE HEALTHCARE INNOVATION
Google’s industry cloud for healthcare From its earliest days, Google’s
Google is building healthcare-specific
combines its Google Workspace research teams have been bullish on
tech into a wide range of its existing
productivity suite with Google Cloud healthcare applications. Not all efforts
consumer products, including search,
Platform data storage and innovation tools. have paid off, as is par for the course
Android OS, Fitbit, and Nest, to improve
The company is aggressively pursuing the with moonshot labs, but Google
clinical outcomes for users.
“industry cloud” market by contributing its persists and its reputation as an
own healthcare solutions. innovator within the industry benefits.
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Theme 1: Creating consumer demand for
Google products with health features
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THEME 1: CONSUMER HEALTH TECH
Google Search presents 4 clinically- Google Search allows users to take a Google has partnered with local health
validated mental health assessments picture of their skin condition and uses agencies to ensure reputable, local
when users search for related terms. AI to identify possible causes (limited to information is being displayed when users
Europe at this time). search about Covid-19.
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THEME 1: CONSUMER HEALTH TECH
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THEME 1: CONSUMER HEALTH TECH
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THEME 1: CONSUMER HEALTH TECH
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Theme 2: Growing enterprise sales with
Google Cloud for healthcare
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THEME 2: GOOGLE’S HEALTH CLOUD PLAYS
Google has secured HITRUST certification for its entire Workspace product suite, giving enterprise
healthcare organizations a SaaS-based productivity suite capable of supporting patient
communications, scheduling, messaging and collaboration, and even telehealth visits.
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THEME 2: GOOGLE’S HEALTH CLOUD PLAYS
Source: Amazon 82
THEME 2: GOOGLE’S HEALTH CLOUD PLAYS
In February, Google Health launched Care Studio, an Google Health absorbed Streams from DeepMind in
AI-powered EHR search tool designed to aggregate November 2018. The app acts as a virtual assistant
clinical information from many sources and present it for clinicians, monitoring patient condition with
based on its relative importance. predictive analytics and pushing alerts to the care
team. Today, the app is used by the NHS to forecast
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Theme 3: Building brand differentiation with
healthcare innovation
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THEME 3: HEALTHCARE INNOVATION
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THEME 3: HEALTHCARE INNOVATION
Google is working on models that can help In ongoing work with Mayo Clinic, Google hopes
pathologists score tumor aggressiveness in to speed up radiotherapy treatment planning for
prostate cancer faster and more accurately. head and neck cancers by automating manual
image annotation work that can take several
hours per patient.
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Key takeaways & implications
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KEY TAKEAWAYS & IMPLICATIONS
Takeaways Google’s consumer health efforts span the breadth of Behind Microsoft, Google has the most publicly Google’s healthcare research is heavily focused
its organizational chart, with Search, Fitbit, Android, disclosed healthcare clients leveraging its industry on building AI to support diagnostics, clinical
and Nest. The company has been much slower to cloud solutions. The company was also just behind surveillance, and treatment optimization. Its
market in some areas – such as medical record data Microsoft on securing HITRUST certification for its labs have pursued healthcare initiatives since
aggregation services or atrial fibrillation alerts – but public cloud infrastructure and introducing native their earliest days, and some models are
first to market with others, like DermAI. support for FHIR data ingestion. already reaching commercial availability.
Implications Google’s consumer health strategy and pace of Google and Microsoft’s cloud offerings will become As Google’s healthcare AI evolves, a more
innovation will remain fractured. Google’s consumer cornerstones of the enterprise tech stack. Expect expansive clinical UX will follow. Today, Care
health strategy is poised to remain siloed. Its core cloud services to be as critical to healthcare Studio and Streams deliver Google AI to
healthcare strategy team, Google Health recently operations as the EHR, with market share clinicians. As more models reach commercial
dissolved its consumer health teams, moving them to disproportionately landing with Google and readiness, expect these to evolve into more
other parts of the business. Do not expect a well- Microsoft. These new enterprise revenue streams robust insight delivery solutions. Also expect
orchestrated consumer health strategy. will accelerate GCP’s healthcare innovations. enhancements for radiology and pathology.
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Amazon
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EXECUTIVE’S PERSPECTIVE: AMAZON
“What we don't want to see is a handful of big entities, big companies, big
healthcare systems dominating a sector."
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WHERE AMAZON IS FOCUSING
BUILDING A HEALTH SERVICES BUSINESS GROWING ENTERPRISE SALES WITH BUILDING CONSUMER DEMAND FOR
FOR CONSUMERS AND EMPLOYERS AWS FOR HEALTH AMAZON DEVICES
Consumerization of healthcare is Industry incumbents are partnering Consumer devices, like wearables
creating opportunities for new entrants with public cloud leaders to and smart speakers, are finding a
to outshine industry incumbents with transform medical care. Amazon is home supporting many health-
more convenient services. Amazon is working hard to make AWS a top- focused use cases. Amazon sees
all in, with telehealth, pharmacy, and tier contender in the industry cloud opportunities for its and smart
diagnostics offerings for consumers market. speakers. wearables
and employers.
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Theme 1: Building a health services business
for consumers and employers
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THEME 1: CONSUMERIZATION OF HEALTHCARE
The company piloted the program with its own employees and is
now selling the service to other self-funded employers nationally.
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THEME 1: CONSUMERIZATION OF HEALTHCARE
Amazon Pharmacy, built on its PillPack acquisition, The on-demand diagnostic lab is offering an FDA
brings price transparency, home medication delivery, emergency use authorized Covid-19 diagnostic tests for in-
and on-demand pharmacist consultations to the mail home use by consumers. Its processing lab has achieved
order pharmacy market. CLIA and CAP certification — gold standards in laboratory
and pathology credentialing.
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THEME 1: CONSUMERIZATION OF HEALTHCARE
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THEME 2: AMAZON’S HEALTH CLOUD PLAYS
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THEME 2: AMAZON’S HEALTH CLOUD PLAYS
A marketplace of pre-
trained models for
healthcare
Amazon has cultivated a marketplace of pre-trained
models specifically designed with enterprise
healthcare in mind.
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THEME 2: AMAZON’S HEALTH CLOUD PLAYS
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THEME 3: DEMAND FOR HEALTHCARE DEVICES
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THEME 3: DEMAND FOR HEALTHCARE DEVICES
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Key takeaways & implications
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KEY TAKEAWAYS & IMPLICATIONS
Takeaways Amazon is the first – and only – big tech vendor Amazon was late to the industry cloud strategies Amazon has brought a portfolio of
directly engaged in care delivery. It has shown it is being pursued by GCP and Azure, but today it clinical-grade medical devices to
willing to compete for patients in areas where it can offers rich support for FHIR data modeling, native market a sensor-equipped smartwatch
deliver a better experience: patient care, pharmacy, support for clinical fact extraction from focused on capturing health data and
and now, diagnostics. The company has the assets to unstructured text, and a compelling model a smart speaker with a HIPAA-
expand into additional areas should its initial efforts marketplace. compliant voice assistant.
prove profitable.
Implications Expect Amazon to expand its diagnostics offerings AWS will see slow growth in the enterprise Amazon will pursue device sales
next. Amazon will continue building solutions catering healthcare cloud services market. Expect AWS to through subsidized healthcare
to patients and employers. Anticipate a larger continue investing heavily in its healthcare- partnerships. Health insurers are
geographic footprint for Amazon Care, more focused cloud services. The company’s growth in subsidizing the cost of Apple Watch
diagnostic tests for Amazon Dx, and forays into new this space will likely trail competitors but should and Google Fitbit for members. Expect
areas, such as diagnostic imaging or a direct yield an increase in digital transformation Amazon to pursue the same
contracting market for health systems and employers. partnerships with health systems and payers. arrangements for both Halo and Echo.
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