Amazon 'mulls' deeper health tech invasion with stealth skunkworks

Amazon is gearing up to take advantage of the burgeoning market for personal healthcare technology, but has been warned not to underestimate the power of the incumbent enterprise market in hospitals. The e‑commerce giant has been running a skunkworks lab called 1492 that’s dedicated to healthcare tech, and is advertising for …

[Ian Michael Gumby]

Seriousl Daft!

Gartner analyst Anurag Gupta said the field was ripe for disruption. This is partly because of the “asymmetric information” balance in the sector – where patients have significantly less information than their clinicians do – and the idea that patients are steadily “morphing into the healthcare consumer,” he said.

This is so wrong it would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous.

You can hand the same information to both the patient and the clinician. The biggest difference is that the Clinician will understand what the data represents. If you don't believe me, then ask your doctor why they hate the internet. Patients are given access to information, yet they don't understand what they read.

You can't replace the doctor with a machine, there's more to medicine than just diagnostic tools.

[JoeEuphony]

You're Good

Coming to a Cinema near You ( gravelly voice) " IF you're covered - you're good - if you ain't - get in line and be patient".