From creating digital health collaboratives to inking partnerships with health systems, here are seven most recent healthcare moves from Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft as reported by Becker's Hospital Review since June:
- A report found that some of the largest hospital and health systems had installed a tracking tool on their websites to gather patients' protected health information with Facebook in exchange for analytics about the ads that they place on Facebook and Instagram. The report found that the health systems and Facebook had not gained patient consent to share the information, which could result in a HIPAA violation.
- Google, the FDA and the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science are creating a digital health collaborative that will release interactive, open-access regulatory support tools for healthcare tech companies.
- Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services has partnered with Microsoft to provide a clinical innovation fellowship. The training aims to develop interdisciplinary leaders who will use technology to improve healthcare outcomes.
- The Department of Veteran Affairs' migrated its digital surgical consent platform, iMedConsent, to Microsoft Azure cloud.
- Amazon Web Services will provide credits and technical expertise to Harmony Health, a digital platform that aims to connect underserved individuals with preventive care beginning in the Los Angeles region.
- Amazon and Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center launched an FDA-approved clinical trial for cancer vaccines. The tech giant and Fred Hutchinson are looking to develop vaccines that can treat breast cancer and melanoma.
- New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health selected Google as its preferred cloud provider.