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DISRUPTION OF HEALTHCARE OJACNTUOABREYR 2018
The collaborative world of healthcare Big Tech’s growing role in healthcare
The evolving decentralized delivery model in the Amazon healthcare era
THE AMAZON EFFECT ON HEALTHCARE
The collaborative world of healthcare
A fundamental change in healthcare is waiting in the wings—collaboration. “I don’t believe that in the future any one company will do all of the biology, the chemistry, all of the data and analytics themselves,” said Adam Schechter, president of Global Human Health for Merck. “It’s going to take partnerships, and it’s going to take different types of partnerships.”
For example, Merck recently worked with Amazon to crowdsource new ways to help diabetes patients, using Alexa to provide patients’ information to their physicians.
In China, Merck’s team used the Alibaba platform and social media WeChat to reach 120 million women to raise awareness of the human papillomavirus—a far more efficient method than the company’s conventional route of going through doctors.
“If you had told me 30 years ago that I’d be working with digital technology companies in order to run my daily business, I wouldn’t have thought it possible,” said Schechter. “Today, that’s a significant amount of my time.” (Fast Company, Merck, 04/03/18)
Big Tech’s growing role in healthcare
In “Big Tech in Healthcare,” Business Insider Intelligence’s Laurie Beaver wrote:
The healthcare industry is undergoing a profound transformation. ...Health organizations are increasingly turning to tech companies to facilitate this transformation in care delivery and lower health expenditures. Tech companies’ expertise in data management and
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