Google Cloud and Epic restart partnership: We examine if it’s enough to move Google up the healthcare cloud rankings.

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.

The news: Oracle unveiled a new electronic health record (EHR) system equipped with its latest AI and cloud capabilities. The EHR is browser-based, and responds to voice-activated questions from clinicians with AI-generated answers. Oracle’s early adopter program for the EHR begins in 2025.

Announced at HLTH 2024, the solution will be built on Salesforce Health Cloud with testing to begin in early 2025. A limited rollout is set for later in the year. How it works: While this process currently takes several days, the new solution aims to tackle it within hours.

business credit institutions, mortgage lending, tax preparation, hedge funds, private equity, VC firms, wealth management, payment platforms, card networks, and companies engaged in the underwriting, purchase, sale, or brokerage of securities and other financial contracts; also includes fintech companies that have disrupted the industry and leverage the internet, mobile devices, software technology, or cloud

From the rise of sophisticated AI-driven tools to new policies reshaping data privacy and competition, 2025 promises to be a year of relentless change. Companies that adapt will thrive, while others risk being left behind in a swiftly moving market.

Dexcom launches genAI platform: Integrating its over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor with genAI is likely a test-case to work out any kinks before a wider rollout to those using its legacy products.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Cloud technologies to secure and support the many data-intensive applications. Next-generation networks like 5G (and eventually 6G) to facilitate this digital transformation. 5G networks enable better use of technologies already in place in most hospitals, like:. Electronic health record (EHR) systems and patient portals. Telehealth and telemedicine platforms, as well as virtual nursing.

Global pharma giant UCB is using Microsoft’s computational AI and cloud capabilities. AI helped UCB develop an oral antiviral drug for COVID-19. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) partnered with PathAI to develop AI algorithms that can speed up drug discovery and improve the success rates of new drugs.

Some of Google’s cloud customers will pilot the company’s Med-Palm 2 generative AI tool to see if it could reliably scan large amounts of patient data and answer complex medical questions. Google’s announcement came right after Microsoft rolled out updated generative AI tools that aim to automate workflows for health insurers.

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).

Beginning in July 2021, the partnership allows merchants on the Adobe Commerce platform to store products in Walmart warehouses, sell products via Walmart Marketplace, and optimize delivery and click and collect using Walmart’s cloud resources. The launch of Walmart Luminate.

During Meta Connect, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Xbox Cloud Gaming would become available through Quest headsets, though neither Nadella nor Zuckerberg offered a timetable. Your Strategy. Marketers should learn how their brands can participate in or support gaming culture, both within and without the metaverse.