‘Alexa, sum up my patient’s symptoms’: AWS’s Dr. Angela Shippy

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Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN), and Apple (AAPL) are racing to carve out their stake in the healthcare market. Their moves come as health providers are turning to big tech to optimize hospital operations and data sharing. While Microsoft has a stronger foothold in the provider space with a lengthy list of partnerships and its well-integrated Azure OpenAI service, health system organizations say that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a top contender in the health cloud sector.

Dr. Angela Shippy, medical doctor-turned-physician executive at AWS, is betting on the company’s voice tech expertise utilized in tools like AWS HealthScribe to shape the industry for the better.

Yahoo Finance gets an inside look at Houston Methodist Hospital’s Technology Hub where Dr. Shippy demonstrates AWS’s latest cloud technologies.

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