Category: Disruptors

Walmart is boosting the wages of more than 7,000 pharmacists and opticians as it continues its push into retail healthcare.

Retail clinics have exploded in popularity in the past five years, as health systems and pharmacy giants like CVS Health continue to open them, a new report from Definitive Healthcare found.

Oak Street Health, a primary care network acquired by CVS Health in May, will expand into Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and Virginia by the end of the year.

TJ Parker, former Amazon Pharmacy consultant and vice president, is rejoining the world of healthcare innovation after leaving the tech giant in September 2022. 

Two of the country’s largest companies, CVS Health and UnitedHealth Group both say they are positioning the U.S. for a shift away from fee-for-service healthcare and will thus save Americans money.

After passing various U.S. medical exams, ChatGPT met its match in the American College of Gastroenterology Self-Assessment Test, researchers found.

Apple launched an ad campaign May 24 focused on its health data privacy efforts.

Amazon and CVS have been trying their hand at the healthcare industry for years, but not without fail —  the two healthcare disruptors recently announced that they would be shuttering some of their healthcare initiatives. 

Nuance Communications, a Microsoft subsidiary that provides artificial intelligence-powered speech-recognition services to physicians, is undergoing layoffs as it concentrates on its healthcare business, the Boston Globe reported.

Amazon continues to recruit staff to fulfill its healthcare ambitions in areas like virtual care, the pharmacy and a “special” medical device project. Here are eight jobs the tech giant is hiring for now: