Category: Disruptors

A lawsuit has been filed against Costco that alleges the warehouse club company shared customers’ protected health information with Facebook parent company Meta, The Seattle Times reported Oct. 9. 

Walmart is expanding its virtual primary care options for its employees nationwide through a partnership with Included Health.

In a bid to improve healthcare facility management and patient care, AI company Care.ai has partnered with Google Cloud to integrate its generative AI and data analytics tools into its platform.

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

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. 

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.

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

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

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