Health care execs homing in on Amazon

What they’re saying: Healthcare Dive flags a recent survey of health professionals — mostly from hospitals, and mainly in senior corporate leadership roles — about the future of tech and health care.

• Asked which new entrant would have the biggest impact on the health industry, 59% said Amazon. Apple placed second at 14%; no other company cracked double digits.
• Just among CEOs, the results are even more stark — 75% of them said it’ll have the biggest impact of any tech competitor.

As for specific technologies, 29% of those surveyed said telemedicine will have the biggest impact on their industry, followed by artificial intelligence at 20%, and interoperability at 15%.

My thought bubble: Health care is hard to disrupt — that’s part of the reason no one has done it yet. It’s a heavily regulated space dominated by large, well-established companies. So it makes sense that the industry would see a large, wealthy company like Amazon as its most likely disruptor, even if smaller, more nimble startups are a greater threat in other sectors.