Infographics of The Big 5 Tech Giants recent Digital Health Journey's (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft). Hyperlinks to all Digital Health news content at each milestone. Presentation is downloadable and should be a useful reference

1. Big Tech on a Digital
Health Journey
@garymonk – September 2020

2. Online
Pharmacy
‘Pill Pack’
acquired
June 2018
AWS partners
with PHDA.
Machine
learning in
Cancer
Diagnostics
August 2019
Alexa skill to
monitor aging
family members
August 2019
Launch of Amazon
Care, virtual health
program for Seattle
employees
September 2019
Textract using
machine learning can
be deployed for
HIPAA tasks
October 2019
Health Navigator
acquired to power
Amazon Care
October 2019
Pill Pack rebranded
‘by Amazon
Pharmacy’
November 2019
AWS announce launch of
voice transcription service
Amazon Transcribe
Medical - inputs text
directly into patients'
medical records
December 2019
AWS & Novartis partner
on cloud based analytics
platform to streamline
operations
December 2019
Mayo Clinic allow access
to Alexa to spread
updated information
about COVID-19
April 2020
Amazon is launching
neighborhood health
clinics for warehouse
employees & families
July 2020
Amazon’s
Health Care
Journey
@garymonk

3. “Apple's greatest
contribution to
mankind will be
health” says Tim
Cook
January 2019
Partnership on
‘healthy
behavior’ app
where Aetna
members can
earn free watch
January 2019
Announcement
at WWDC
tracking of
menstrual cycles,
symptoms &
hearing
June 2019
Stores begin
selling One Drop,
monitoring blood
glucose through
iPhone / Watch
June 2019
Partnership using
device data to
study signs of
cognitive decline
and dementia
August 2019
Publish new
study indicating
Apple Watch can
detect heart
irregularities
November 2019 “Heartline Study”
enrolment to
detect Atrial
Fibrillation in
>65 yr olds
February 2020
COVID-19
Bluetooth
contact tracing
App
May 2020
Sleep Tracking
finally comes to
Apple Watch
June 2020
Kick of
Depression &
Anxiety Study
August 2020
Apple’s
Health Care
Journey
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4. Finalizes
acquisition of UK
AI giant
DeepMind
September 2019
COVID-19
Bluetooth
contact tracing
App
May 2020
Reveals AI system that
detects age-related
macular degeneration &
shows can predict
disease progression
May 2020
Provides clinically
certified
questionnaire for
anxiety searches,
to support
pandemic stress
May 2020
Google’s
Health Care
Journey
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European
Commission expands
Google-Fitbit
acquisition probe into
full-scale investigation
August 2020
Partnership to make
Meditech EHR
available as a cloud
subscription
October 2019
Google cloud adds EHR
voice assistant ‘Alexa
for Doctors’ Suki
October 2019
Reports plans to
acquire Fitbit for $2.1
billion
November 2019
Publishes data showing
AI as accurate as
radiographers in chest
x-rays
December 2019
Publishes study AI
diagnoses anemia via
retinal scans vs blood test
January 2020
NYC Mount Sinai partners
with Google Nest to
monitor critically ill COVID-
19 patients
January 2020

5. Announce
building ‘Hospital
of the future’
with focus on
EHR’s
July 2019
Map out immune
responses to COVID-19
to accelerate vaccine
development
March 2020
Microsoft builds ‘Corona
Virus Self Checker Chat
Bot'
March 2020
COVID-19
screening tool to
support return to
work
May 2020
Microsoft’s
Health Care
Journey
@garymonk
5 year precision
medicine partnership
with Microsoft Azure
June 2020
Launch ‘AI Factory for
Health’ accelerator
using AI to address
healthcare issues
September 2019
Joint AI innovation lab
to accelerate new
medicine development
October 2019
‘Exam room of the future’
with focus on allowing
clinical documentation to
‘write itself’
October 2019
Building natural
language and speech
recognition for clinical
workflows
October 2019
Launch mobile app to
prevent sudden infant
death syndrome
December 2019
Launches its physician-
patient listening & report
compiling software
February 2020

6. Adds artificial
intelligence to its
suicide
prevention tools
March 2017
Launches new tool
Preventative Health to
tell users what
checkups they need, &
where to get them
October 2019
Facebook ads spreading
lies about anti-HIV drug
PrEP. And refuse to act
December 2019
Facebook rolls
out three new
COVID-19 related
health tracking
maps
April 2020
Facebook’s
Health Care
Journey
@garymonk
Jointly developed
machine learning
solution can accelerate
MRIs
August 2020
Starts to direct users
searching for opioids
toward addiction
resources
June 2018
Rolls out blood
donation program in
the US
February 2019
Limits spread of vaccine
misinformation
March 2019
Facebook unveils
health support groups,
new privacy feature for
medical topics
May 2019
Researchers show Users'
Facebook posts can help
predict medical conditions
June 2019
Period tracking apps caught
sharing medical data with
Facebook
September 2019