#healthcare #health #google #tech #bigdata #bigtech #healthtech #supplychain #amazon #apple #healthinnovations Health tech can disrupt the market, but it needs to learn the market first. It’s about being adaptable and flexible, and being able to understand and work around the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of healthcare and put the effort in to do that, rather than trying to smash through it. “Retrofitting these core competencies into healthcare may improve elements of it, but they will not meaningfully change healthcare’s root problem: a uniquely disconnected ecosystem that consistently fails patients and providers.”Īs Dr Kharraz comments, the disconnected nature of healthcare cannot simply be fixed through the hammer and nail approach - coming in and trying to impose your own process. “They are primarily solving how to make money with their respective core businesses: Apple is focused on driving adoption of its hardware (Apple Watch), Google on big data applied to clinical questions (Verily), and Amazon on leveraging its supply chain in areas like pharmacy (Pillpack, Amazon Clinic). “Big tech companies have failed because they have either attempted to change healthcare from the outside in, or they have tried to force their solutions upon the many players and systems within the space.”

Really interesting read by founder of Zocdoc Oliver Kharraz, MD on why big tech has failed to disrupt healthcare despite all the hype that it was going to. *Healthcare needs bridges and tunnels, not hammers and nails.*

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