Category: Disruptors

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.

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

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

Microsoft has forged two new strategic partnerships with leading health systems — Mayo Clinic and Mercy — as it aims to use the power of generative artificial intelligence to ease healthcare’s administrative burdens. 

As Costco looks to break into healthcare through a new partnership with virtual care company Sesame, Costco CFO Richard Galanti said in a Sept. 26 earnings call that raising the cost of its membership is a ‘question of when, not if.’

One professor says Amazon’s new ownership of a clinic that serves Hanover, N.H.-based Dartmouth College employees and their families could be the right model to “rethink” primary care, Valley News reported Sept. 27.