"Without a strong partner like Amazon and AWS to stand alongside them, to co-develop and support these companies … it's not going to move as fast as we hope," Chris Bischoff, head of global health-care investing at General Catalyst, told CNBC in an interview.
Health systems are strained in the U.S., with staff burnout, growing labor shortages and razor-thin margins. These challenges often seem enticing for enterprising tech startups to tackle, especially as the multi-trillion dollar health-care industry dangles the prospect of large financial returns.