Category: Disruptors

WeightWatchers completed its acquisition of telehealth company Sequence on April 10. 

A former employee of hybrid primary care company Carbon Health is among the laid-off tech workers who went on to found “revenge startups,” The Wall Street Journal reported.

Hospitals need to learn from Big Tech’s use of consumer data to create loyal customers, Trilliant Health Chief Research Officer Sanjula Jain, PhD, wrote in the Harvard Business Review April 10.

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.