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| Feb 28, 2024
Source: Insider Intelligence | eMarketer
On the back of its Azure Health Data Services launch, we unpack how Microsoft is on its way to leading the healthcare cloud market.
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| Mar 17, 2022
We unpack a new KLAS survey detailing what health system execs are looking for when selecting a cloud vendor.
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| Aug 30, 2022
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| Mar 25, 2022
Generative AI comes to EHRs: Microsoft’s strong AI position could bring the company more healthcare cloud customers since its integrated AI tech with Epic can only be accessed on Azure.
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| Apr 18, 2023
Google Cloud and Epic restart partnership: We examine if it’s enough to move Google up the healthcare cloud rankings.
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| Nov 17, 2022
Health systems jump into the cloud to make digital healthcare more accessible: UC Davis Health partnered with AWS to roll out a digital health innovation center focused on health equity—we unpack why it matters and why more health systems may flock to AWS.
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| Nov 30, 2021
What Oracle’s rumored Cerner acquisition would mean for the EHR market: The reported $30 billion acquisition would put Oracle back on the map in healthcare cloud, and shake up the market dynamics between Epic and Cerner. More on this below.
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| Dec 20, 2021
Also includes fintech companies that have disrupted the industry and leverage the internet, mobile devices, software technology, or cloud services to provide traditional financial services (e.g., banking, insurance, and lending) and emerging financial services (e.g., payments, crowdfunding, cryptocurrency, and blockchain).
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| Sep 5, 2023
Also includes fintech companies that have disrupted the industry and leverage the internet, mobile devices, software technology, or cloud services to provide traditional financial services (e.g., banking, insurance, and lending) and emerging financial services (e.g., payments, crowdfunding, cryptocurrency, and blockchain).
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| Aug 18, 2023
Despite high-profile investments in grocery and healthcare, the company has so far been unable to dominate those industries as it has in the ecommerce and cloud services sectors. Amazon recently overhauled its grocery business in a bid to grow its share of online grocery dollars and reduce supply chain costs, but Walmart still has a commanding lead.
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| Sep 19, 2023
Google’s Big Tech rivals and other industry players are also active in the cloud-based healthcare interoperability market. Earlier this year, Microsoft Azure unveiled a suite of tools designed to unify health data in the cloud as part of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The company says its platform gathers data from diverse devices and apps and structures it in the cloud so it’s usable for clinicians.
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| Nov 30, 2022
Healthcare cloud competition is stiff and heating up. Google is a distant third in the $17.19 billion US healthcare cloud market, trailing leader AWS and Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Google holds an 8.4% share in 2022, compared with AWS’ 24.3%, according to our estimates.
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| Jul 21, 2022
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare combines services from its Nuance, Azure IoT, and Teams divisions to help provider customers manage workflows, deploy virtual visits, and remotely monitor patients. Since its 2020 rollout, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare has expanded its offerings. For example, earlier this year, Microsoft Azure unveiled a suite of tools designed to unify health data in the cloud.
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| Dec 14, 2022
Google’s Cloud capabilities power virtual care. Amazon will soon shutter its Amazon Care arm, but will still deliver virtual care via One Medical. And Salesforce offers Health Cloud. Our take: Big Tech companies are not yet threatening incumbent digital health vendors in the areas that provider organizations most want to invest in.
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| Oct 25, 2022
Health systems and EHR companies are turning to cloud-based offerings from Big Tech players—including Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare—for data storage, management, exchange, and remote access. They’re also partnering with third-party apps and platforms—including Apple—that enable consumers to access and download their data as they choose.
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| Jan 20, 2023
Microsoft expanded its partnership with global pharma giant UCB in February to accelerate drug discovery and development using Microsoft’s computational AI and cloud capabilities. Also in February, it scored a partnership with one of the largest health systems in the US, Kaiser Permanente, to improve its cloud capabilities and personalize patient care.
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| Dec 21, 2021
Cloud breaches. Cloud breaches are becoming more common, as 73% of healthcare companies store data in the cloud, per Netwirx Cloud Data Security Report. 61% of healthcare respondents experienced an attack on their cloud infrastructure in 2022 via phishing, ransomware, or other malware attack. Most attacks were detected within minutes or hours, not days or weeks. 3.
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| Jan 27, 2023
It trails significantly behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Google only holds 8.4% of the $17.19 US healthcare cloud market, compared with AWS’ 24.3%, per Insider Intelligence’s estimates. But as more healthcare systems seek out cloud providers and patient data volume grows, Google could become an attractive option for major health systems.
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| Jul 15, 2022
In June, Amazon launched a new functionality for its Halo wearable that measures movement and flexibility via a smartphone camera and cloud-based AI—but privacy concerns are still limiting consumer adoption.
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| Dec 28, 2021
The news: Healthcare cloud company Clarify Health acquired provider-focused behavioral science platform Embedded Healthcare to scale value-based care (VBC) for health plans. More on the two companies:. Clarify Health’s AI-powered cloud analytics platform optimizes VBC contracts between providers and payers by analyzing metrics like provider performance and real-time population health insights.
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| Mar 15, 2022
Signify’s cloud-based platform will have access to more provider and healthcare data that’ll improve how its analytics identify patients’ health risks and other VBC factors. How digital health can enable VBC: VBC models depend on actionable, quality metrics that can accurately assess and analyze healthcare costs, quality, and outcomes.
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| Feb 14, 2022
The news: CVS Health is deepening its Microsoft partnership to leverage the tech giant’s cloud services and AI tech. CVS is aiming to provide consumers with more personalized care and to streamline CVS healthcare employees' workflows. For context, CVS Health already uses Microsoft’s services like Text Analytics to digitize tasks in its pharmacies.
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| Dec 3, 2021
It could triple down on [that bet] and make some significant investments, post-acquisition, such as making internal R&D resources for additional AI and ML investments or accelerating the transition to cloud. II: What do you believe was the impetus behind this deal, from both sides?
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| Jan 6, 2022
PatientPop helps doctors grow their practices via tech-enabled marketing strategies, cloud-based offerings, online scheduling, and an online platform to practice virtual care.
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| Nov 2, 2021