Category: Disruptors

Medtronic has named Ken Washington, PhD, the former vice president and general manager of consumer robotics at Amazon, its first chief technology and innovation officer. 

Retail giant Walmart is partnering with diagnostics company Simple HealthKit to offer its testing kits for sale on Walmart.com.

Peter Lee, MD, global medical director of Amazon, has left the company to join occupational health provider Work Health Solutions. 

Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business. Below are three open positions as of June 9:

Walmart Health opened three new clinics in Jacksonville, Fla., starting June 6 as the company continues its push into retail healthcare, the Florida Times-Union reported.

CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch, the “most powerful woman in business,” has a chance to transform healthcare as the leader of the industry’s second-largest company, Fortune reported June 7.

Tech giants such as Google and Microsoft are trying their hands at generative AI in healthcare and are partnering with some of the largest hospitals and health systems in the U.S. to see how this new tech can automate tedious tasks for clinicians and t…

Amazon subsidiary One Medical has opened its first Connecticut location under a partnership with Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare, HamletHub reported June 7.

Amazon Web Services has partnered with health IT interoperability organization the Interoperability Institute to launch a virtual innovation center aimed at advancing healthcare interoperability.

Microsoft continues to make its push into healthcare and is inking partnerships with some of the largest hospitals and health systems to accelerate its jump into the industry.