Microsoft product teams, along with Microsoft Research have been working with customers to build cloud-based AI platforms to “integrate information across healthcare providers, pharmacies, and payers in ways that create personalized, community-based care networks.”

Just as with education, healthcare is a huge economic engine in the US, consuming vast amounts of resources, but in often glaringly inefficient ways. We might find out through LFH, HFH, just how inefficient it is, because of new aggregators of services onto vertical platforms, such as “Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare”, described below. Kudos to Gary for the link, and his take that this represents a trend of vertical platforms that could swallow the education and healthcare markets in a few years.

BTW, ZDNET has various newsletters one can sign up for…”ZDNet Cloud and Everything as a Service”…is one of them. “Everything as a Service”???  Today, across the world, people are seeking tools to accomplish much of/ many of  life’s tasks “from home”. While it’s early days, and much is under-supported, the implication is there of something quite like “Everything as a Service”.

The nature, structure, framing, and effectiveness of the implied services is TBD. The concept does seem to predict some combination of tech giants, with community and home based functions, in ways that will enable and empower both educators and healthcare providers, but also empowers persons and communities which will have greatly increased DIY roles to play.

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