Category: Disruptors

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. 

VillageMD has been selected for a two-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health to identify patients with undiagnosed Alzheimer’s disease using EHR data.

General Electric is offering 25 million shares of GE HealthCare stock, valued at around $2 billion, Benzinga reported June 6.

Hybrid primary care company Carbon Health has debuted hands-free charting in its proprietary EHR, using GPT-4 artificial intelligence technology to craft patient visit summaries.

Although ChatGPT said it is hard to pinpoint one single entity as the biggest healthcare disruptor, it labeled Amazon as the most notable, which differs from the opinions of health system and hospital CIOs, who told Becker’s Optum and CVS would be the …

Hospitals and health systems have long been a favorite target of philanthropists.

Amazon’s RxPass subscription medication service is now available in 44 states after expanding to Pennsylvania, WTAJ reported May 31.

Several healthcare executives and leaders at Amazon have stepped down, left the company or taken a break from their positions in the last year.