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Hearing the report on Bloomberg news earlier today. Isn't this just for the 900k employees and isn't it just focusing on wearable tech? It sounded more like fi
by swarnie_ 9y ago
Hearing the report on Bloomberg news earlier today. Isn't this just for the 900k employees and isn't it just focusing on wearable tech?
It sounded more like fitbit with cloud services than insurance.
- citizenkeen 9y agoKaiser Permanente was originally just for employees, so, you know, it could go somewhere.
- runako 9y ago> Isn't this just for the 900k employees and isn't it just focusing on wearable tech? I believe it's initially for the employees of those companies. If they can make it work for them, they have a great team (ecommerce, finance, insurance) to back a larger rollout. The announcement says it's about providing healthcare at lower cost with better results, which sounds like a lot more than wearables.
- joezydeco 9y agoStock market seems to confirm that theory. All the other healthcare stocks opened down this morning.
- FLUX-YOU 9y ago>It sounded more like fitbit with cloud services than insurance. If there are healthcare providers involved giving direct healthcare, there will need to be systems and development around medical records. That could easily be sold as a product to hospitals and providers outside of the AMZN/JPM/BRK company down the road. Taking a "beginner's mindset" to me sounds like they plan on writing their own stuff, except for interoperation like HL7, which is great because most of the stuff from EPIC/Allscripts/Cerner is drowning in technical debt.
- pbreit 9y ago"beginner's mindset" was my favorite line in the article. Classic Bezos. Yes, it might indicate building their own stuff. I also interpret it that sometimes the experts are too stuck in their ways.