While we've created an app NAVA MedQ to help patients easily connect with clinics, big tech are increasingly getting involved in the Healthcare space.

Before we get into Amazon's new initiative. Let's briefly talk about Apple's play, they are naturally going after a project Google abandoned — that of easy access to your complete medical records. This is important since the Apple Watch has come a long ways.

If Apple is expanding its health app to include info from medical records; this means the full assault of Big Tech on healthcare could be gradual and formidable in terms of how healthcare data is tracked and used.

If iPhone users can track everything from allergies to vaccines to lab results; it will quickly get to the point where mobile accessibility of patient data is more patient-centric.

Just as Amazon is a customer-centric solution, it's only a matter of time before patients have access to their electronic health records and better access overall to healthcare services for both private and public healthcare settings. At NAVA Technologies, this is one of our key priorities as well.

Google Health had built a personal health information service with the same concept but it was shut down in 2011. Now it seems Amazon and Apple are further ahead.

"Our goal is to help consumers live a better day. We’ve worked closely with the health community to create an experience everyone has wanted for years — to view medical records easily and securely right on your iPhone," Apple COO Jeff William

Apple's beta list of participating medical facilities is pretty impressive:

Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore

Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles

Penn Medicine in Philadelphia

Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania

UC San Diego Health in San Diego, California

UNC Health Care In Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Rush University Medical Center in Chicago

Dignity Health in Arizona, California and Nevada

Ochsner Health System in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

MedStar Health in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia

OhioHealth in Columbus, Ohio

Cerner Healthe Clinic in Kansas City, Missouri

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway And JPMorgan Chase Launch New Health Care Company

It came out this week that Amazon has partnered to found a company to figure out how to reduce ballooning healthcare costs. This is important for Amazon personally since it's expanded its workforce considerably recently and is set to continue that trend.

Amazon already has a stealth HealthTech lab it calls 1492. Amazon with this new company will focus on employee healthcare with a mind to how to simplify the future of the healthcare system. Overtime this could include many consumer centric healthcare services that optimize our health data to personalize healthcare in the smart home, among other things.

People like Warren Buffet and Jeff Bezos realize that for the American economy, coming up with more cost efficiency healthcare solutions for American citizens is a huge priority. It's also a huge opportunity.

The partnership between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase represents 1.1 million workers and it will be interesting to watch how Big Tech continues their early phase planning of how to tackle and contribute to better healthcare services for all.

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