The definitive 2026 Health AI strategy audit. Discover which Big Tech players, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, or Microsoft, are actually aiming to solve clinical problems and which are just shipping marketing.

We perform a dispassionate clinical audit of the global Health AI landscape for 2026. We move beyond the hype to analyse the "moats" and "missions" of the major players, from OpenAI’s consumer-led personal health ally to Anthropic’s infrastructure-first approach with MCP. We critique the incrementalism in some research, the secrecy of Microsoft’s enterprise play, and the vertical integration of Amazon’s agentic systems. Finally, we outline a vision for "AI by design" that replaces medieval medical workflows with continuous, decentralised care.

00:00 – Intro: The Strategic Audit of the Health AI Landscape

00:45 – OpenAI vs Anthropic: Consumer Allies vs. Enterprise Plumbing

03:20 – Google’s "Incrementalism": Why Med-Gemini Isn’t a Paradigm Shift

05:10 – The Microsoft Dilemma: Enterprise Guardrails vs Clinical Utility

06:50 – Amazon’s "Closed Loop": Moving from Generative to Agentic Care

07:30 – Open Evidence: Building Physician Trust Through RAG

08:10 – The EHR Giants: Epic, Oracle, and the "Data Archaeology" Problem

09:30 – Why Meta and X.AI are Missing from the Clinical Room

09:50 – Apple’s Long Game: Passive Phenotyping & "Owning the Door"

10:40 – The Regulatory and Economic Walls: EU AI Act & the Cost of Inference

11:50 – The Future Beyond the Chatbot

15:30 – Final Verdict: Moving Beyond Medieval Frameworks

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