Health care is the latest Big Tech battleground – The Hustle

Its no secret that America spends on health care. In 2019, that spending reached $3.8T ($11.6k per person). By 2028, its projected to hit $6.2T.

To the folks in Big Tech, any number with a T means one thing: opportunity.

The company announced the $19.7B acquisition of Nuance Communications, known for its AI transcription tools for health care professionals.

Nuance has a healthy following among

Doctors can use Nuance tech which is already integrated with Microsoft Teams to record conversations and automatically transcribe notes.

Cook, Pichai, and Bezos want in, too:

Bezos has also gone one step further, debuting the Amazon Halo thats capable of calculating body fat (of which Bezos has none).

If history is any indication, Big Techs success in health care is hardly a given:

Regardless, the digitization of health care is a huge market, and Big Tech is gearing up for battle.

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