Health systems continue to look to Big Tech to increase access to primary and virtual care as healthcare leaders recognize it’s “not a traditional brick-and-mortar industry anymore,” as one executive told Becker’s.
In the past month, two health systems expanded partnerships with Amazon One Medical to provide a new care avenue for patients and continued to work with tech giants to reduce administrative work with AI.
“This space is consistently challenging all of us to step up our game,” Kate Jones, senior vice president and chief strategy officer of Chicago-based Rush University System for Health, told Becker’s for a Jan. 6 story. “We’re not a traditional brick-and-mortar industry anymore.”
Here are 10 collaborations between health systems and Big Tech that Becker’s reported on over the last month:
1. Amazon’s One Medical said Jan. 22 it has opened its second collaborative primary care office with Cleveland Clinic.
2. Microsoft said Jan. 15 it has been working with startup founders and health systems like Cleveland Clinic and New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on AI and augmented reality projects.
3. Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health said Jan. 13 it has developed an AI tool that uses Google’s machine learning technology to synthesize two years’ worth of provider notes in seconds.
4. York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health said Jan. 8 it is migrating its entire technology infrastructure to the cloud through a partnership with Amazon Web Services.
5. Rady Children’s Health, based in San Diego and Orange, Calif., has created its own private generative AI platform with Amazon Web Services, Becker’s reported Jan. 7.
6. Boston Children’s Hospital has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to create “clinical doppelgangers” to find patients with like conditions and boost treatment, according to a Jan. 6 blog post by leaders at Boston Children’s and AWS.
7. Chicago-based Rush University System for Health started partnering with Amazon One Medical on Jan. 1 to boost access to its virtual and in-person specialty care.
8. Microsoft and Epic are the top two healthcare AI vendors in use or consideration by health systems, KLAS Research reported Dec. 29.
9. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has banded together with Microsoft and the American Legion to create innovative digital health solutions for veterans, the VA said Dec. 28.
10. Little Rock, Ark.-based Baptist Health has experienced time and cost savings from using Amazon Quick Sight, an AI-powered business intelligence platform, according to a late December Amazon blog post.
