Category: Disruptors

Software giant Microsoft has emerged as a major player in the medtech industry.

Best Buy Health provides remote patient monitoring via flip phones, pendant alarms and a clinical command center staffed by nurses, Technology Magazine reported.

The CEO of Signify Health said the home health company plans to partner with more hospitals on analytics after its $8 billion acquisition by CVS in March, D Magazine reported.

Nworah Ayogu, MD, general manager and chief medical officer of Amazon Clinic, says the platform aims to be a marketplace that connects consumers to providers, CNBC reported April 4.

ChatGPT may be after some jobs, but it intends to leave patient-facing ones to the pros — at least for now. 

Plano, Texas-based Intuitive Health, a provider of hybrid emergency and urgent care services, has expanded its offering with the acquisition of four new centers in its home state.

CVS Health is expanding in the healthcare industry through mergers and acquisitions, giving the company access to more brick and mortar clinics and thousands of clinicians. 

VillageMD, which is majority owned by Walgreens, wants to expand to rural America and offer patients access to care seven days a week, Politico reported April 3. 

Peter Lee, PhD, corporate vice president of research and incubations at Microsoft, said GPT-4, an AI-powered tool built by OpenAI, could have the potential to increase empathy and efficiency at healthcare systems, GeekWire reported March 30.  

Researchers working with Google Health and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital are using deep learning to predict people’s biological aging through their eyes, TheStreet reported.