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Creating an Infrastructure of Health Data to Support Amazon’s Leap into Healthcare

By CLAUDIA WILLIAMS  Amazon has transformed the way we read books, shop online, host websites, do cloud computing, and watch TV. Can they apply their successes in all these other areas to healthcare? Just last week, Amazon announced Comprehend Medical, machine learning software that digitizes and processes medical records. “The process of developing clinical trials… Read More: Creating an Infrastructure of Health Data to Support Amazon’s Leap… »

For Capitalism, Every Social Leap Forward Is a Marketing Opportunity

They are the new beautiful people and their pronouns are they, their and them. Fashion courts them. Publishers pursue them. Corporations see in them the future of consuming, as generations come of age for whom notions of gender as traditionally constituted seem clunkier than a rotary phone. Why settle for being a man or a… Read More: For Capitalism, Every Social Leap Forward Is a Marketing Opportunity »