As Microsoft hopes to expand its influence in the healthcare field, the company has reached an integration agreement with Teladoc Health. It plans to provide hospitals with Teladoc’s virtual care platform through its video conferencing software Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft said that since the beginning of the pandemic, some medical systems and doctors have turned to Microsoft Teams to establish contact with patients.At the same time, video conferencing competitors such as Zoom Start selling more aggressively Their healthcare capabilities
Teladoc’s Bread and Butter is still providing telemedicine services to employers in exchange for subscription fees.It hopes to add more health system customers on its basis Last year, InTouch Health was acquired for $600 million.
Teladoc CEO Joseph DeVivo said in a press release that the joint effort will provide clinicians with a more seamless experience, reduce administrative tasks and use the machine learning expertise of the two companies.
Through the cooperation with Teladoc, Microsoft plans to increase the enterprise healthcare work it started last year when it Started to provide cloud services for healthcare.
Microsoft’s Recently proposed to acquire Nuance, a healthcare AI company US$19.7 billion hinted at its future plans. Nuance is known for its dictation software used to extract health information into clinical notes, as well as voice-based consent forms and drug orders. The company has worked with Microsoft for many years and began to integrate these features into Microsoft Teams after the pandemic began.
transaction Passed the antitrust regulator last month And it is expected to close this year.
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