Apple-IBM Alliance Is Already Threatened By Startups
Summary
The alliance will no doubt warrant a mention in todays Apple earnings call, which is expected to show strong results for the device to services giant. Platforms with a consumer-centric flair (think Uber and Airbnb) are unpredictable beasts but they generally rely on globalization for scale a missing ingredient in health. Co-founder Chris Bradley majored in neuroscience and cell biology and went on from there to study computer science while partner Raj Amin, an engineer by background, was CEO/Co-Founder of HealthiNation, a health and wellness video company for consumer education, backed by Intel Capital. They were both fortunate and prescient enough to win a recent competition to devise a new platform to connect New Yorks 66,000 physicians, hospitals and care providers with the emerging world of patient-generated data. "the future won’t necessarily be about winning on the device side, it will be about how you use the enormous amount of data that is being generated by people to describe themselves in new ways.
