Apple watch series 6 with a blood O2 sensor, Amazon’s Halo wearable with voice sensing capabilities, Google’s hiring of more healthcare roles - what all these headlines tell us is that perhaps healthcare needs to be disrupted from outside healthcare.

What makes these companies, besides being very large and very rich, good avenues to deliver healthcare through?

• What do we need to do to influence and collaborate with these firms to impact our work as startups, as research institutions?

• Proof of direct impact & near-term cost saving is the future of digital health startups.

• What are the greatest successes to date - any examples of partnerships that have worked? D2C or B2B initiatives that have worked?

• Do these large companies have the power and responsibility to impact scaling of virtual care delivery?