Category: Disruptors

Best Buy dives into diabetes care

Best Buy said it will begin to sell continuous glucose monitors.

Dollar General's rural healthcare pilot sees mixed reviews: 'I wouldn't want to go to a clinic in a parking lot'

Dollar General is setting out to close a gap in rural healthcare delivery with mobile clinics in store parking lots, an offering that raises questions for some and elicits praise from others. 

Optum, Uber partner

Some Medicare Advantage beneficiaries will have coverage for Uber app purchases, including rides to physician visits and healthy foods, due to a new partnership between Optum and Uber.

Healthcare discounts absent from Amazon's next Prime day

Amazon Prime customers looking to get a deal on healthcare will have to wait.

Why Walmart isn't partnering with hospitals — yet

Unlike other healthcare disruptors, Walmart isn’t partnering with hospitals and health systems. At least not yet.

Instacart expands healthcare reach with Mount Sinai partnership

Mount Sinai Solutions, a division of New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System, is partnering with Instacart to offer post-operative and post-partum patients access to groceries.

Walgreens investors, analysts cheer possible healthcare pick for CEO

Walgreens investors and analysts like the news that the company is close to hiring a CEO with healthcare experience, Bloomberg reported.

VillageMD's senior VP leaves for new role

Howard Cutler, senior vice president of payer strategies for VillageMD, has left the company for a new role at One Call. 

Google to open new wellness centers

As Google looks to get employees back into the office, it will expand its suite of on-site wellness centers in 2024, HR Brew reported Oct. 2. 

Walgreens CIO latest to leave in exec reshuffling

Walgreens CIO Hsiao Wang is leaving the company just a year after being appointed to the role, Bloomberg reported Oct. 2.