Microsoft, Humana Partner To ‘Reimagine’ Healthcare For Aging Boomers

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Microsoft has partnered with Humana to 'reimagine' health care for aging boomers

Photographer: Ty Wright/BloombergMicrosoft and Humana are partnering in an effort to improve health outcomes of the health insurer’s subscribers by making their “health care experiences simpler to navigate,”Humana, which manages health benefits for four million people enrolled in its Medicare Advantage plans, said the companies will combine the power of Microsoft’s Azure cloud, artificial intelligence and voice technologies to “build predictive and personalized health care solutions to help...

“It’s about your health record . . . based on what you give us access to and what you want us to use the data for,” Humana’s chief of digital health and analytics, Heather Cox, said in an interview. More than 10,000 baby boomers are turning 65 years old and becoming eligible for Medicare health benefits and that threatens to increase government spending and seniors’ ability to pay co-payments, deductibles and premiums so technology firms see a role in helping health insurers who are charged with picking up the tab for patient care and controlling its costs.

 

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LoL baby boomers ruined earth but atleast we dont have nazis lol

Copies pas, la dernière fois il a fait une erreur celui qui a repensé l'humanité.... Et puis t'es pas seul à pouvoir aider ... On attend les GAFA

As long as they do good and don't just muddy the healthcare waters. When you are elderly and sick you need care not twenty questions and studies.

Is Humana not competing with Fitbit?

Hopefully, they made it free, like it is in the rest of the world.

Does msft have a division dedicated to innovation outside of tech? imo their core business has no business getting into healthcare, this puts too many cooks in the kitchen/obscures who healthcare works for. However, as an advisor on a board or in a subdivision of the org, sure.

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