Tech companies aim to make healthcare savings
Major tech giants have pledged to remove technological barriers within the US healthcare system in a move that could lead to savings of more than $30 million a year. Amazon.com, Alphabet Inc. unit Google and Microsoft Corp., among others, announced at a recent event focused on developing more healthcare apps that they ‘shared a common goal’ in finding a way to unlock healthcare data that would ‘deliver better outcomes at lower costs’.
“Even though [patient] information is now digitised, it’s held in many different formats and standards, such that the patient can’t control that data, or move it seamlessly from one practice to the next,” said Dean Garfield, President of the Information Technology Industry Council.
“As patient expectations for seamless experiences have increased, so has our commitment to eliminating the technological barriers that make it challenging for providers to deliver connected care,” Google said in a blog post.