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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life).

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Microsoft's M&A strategy in healthcare: current trends and potential future activity

Lloyd Price

The company has partnerships with hospitals, clinics, payers, and life sciences companies. Microsoft first entered the healthcare market in 2009 with the launch of its HealthVault platform, which allowed patients to store and share their health data.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

So let’s take inventory: software for medical research, new sensor technology that provides activity data and remote diagnostics, health records, medical clinics and a powerful soft asset – consumer trust. Since it raised its first fund in 2009, it has backed nearly 60 health-related enterprises.