The software giant offers to buy Nuance, the company behind the Siri voice technology, to develop AI-backed technology designed to help physicians interact online more effectively with patients and predict their needs. The deal would build on Microsoft’s efforts to sell more cloud-based software to doctors and hospitals.
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanford University student Jack Yuan launched a global PPE supply chain. Now his company, Tianchi Med, provides equipment through several internet venues to millions of buyers in need of PPE products, Yuan says.
Data and analysis in the third and final part of the 2020 B2B Marketplace Report Series finds that the pandemic has accelerated the significant growth in recent years of B2B online marketplaces of various types.
Bill Kopitke, head of healthcare at Amazon Business, discusses how it works with suppliers of personal protective equipment to meet customer demand during the pandemic.
As the multibillion-dollar distributor of electrical and data-networking products and services experienced a slowdown in sales during the pandemic, it enhanced its ecommerce strategy and how it serves customers with digital technology, CEO Kathleen Mazzarella said at B2B Next 2020.
Mara Paré, vice president of client solutions at medical equipment distributor PartsSource, which does most of its sales online, discusses how it is adapting its business during the pandemic.
As International Market Centers puts a hold on its mammoth traditional trade shows in Atlanta, Las Vegas and North Carolina because of the pandemic, it’s attracting more participants on its ShopZio digital commerce platform.
The B2B marketplace says it is “urgently working across suppliers” to procure personal protective equipment and other supplies, including those shown above, that hospitals and other organizations need for the coronavirus pandemic.
The e-marketplace company has launched an ecommerce portal to connect the world’s medical suppliers with hospitals in China. Alibaba is using the portal to purchase the supplies itself and ship them for no charge to the recipients. Pictured above: Alibaba workers prepare to ship medical supplies from New York to China.
