Healthcare hastens Silicon Valley clash
Big Tech did its best in 2018 to pitch the healthcare technology buyers that attend their industry’s premier, long-running tech gathering. There was the Eric Schmidt keynote; the Salesforce “relaunch” of a tweak to its standard offering; and so much more.
When none of it worked, Silicon Valley launched its own (flashier and alcohol-laden) confab, and didn’t invite anyone who criticized Big Tech’s ambitions.
That first installment flopped, so Silicon Valley’s venture capital firms strong-armed their portfolio companies — and healthcare journalists — to attend a hastily-called second attempt (still flashy and alcohol-laden 🙃) last year.
They also poured hundreds of millions in their Washington DC lobbying budgets.
On the eve of HIMSS20, an epic clash is gearing up. In the past few days…
Epic tells customers it will stop Google Cloud integrations, saying hospitals and other healthcare customers just aren’t asking for it
Epic Systems advises hospital execs to oppose Silicon Valley-generated data interoperability rule '
And after being attacked by Trump Administration officials, the company said it may sue the Department of Health and Human Services (update 1/29)
And those lobbying dollars seem to be paying off:
Trump Administrations Alex Azar is criticizing “stakeholders” who oppose data-interoperability rules being proposed by HHS
Two days later, the head of the rule making office inside HHS did the same (update 1/29)
The FDA just issued a cybersecurity alert on GE Healthcare medical devices
The catch, of course — as this hospital executive details — is that when Big Tech writes the rules, investors become the customers instead of patients.
Related: Big Tech really wants you to blame hospitals for Silicon Valley’s misuse of your patient data.
TODAY IN:
DEEP TECH:
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MEDIA & TELECOM:
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HEALTHCARE TECH:
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CVS Health is watching data governance
FINANCE:
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PUBLIC POLICY:
State Attorneys General to meet with Justice Department officials to coordinate on expanding Google probe
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And finally… two big brains.
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