Category: Disruptors

Fifth Third Bank said it will acquire healthcare payments and remittance provider Big Data Healthcare. 

The CEO of One Medical pushed back against data privacy concerns brought up after its $3.9 billion acquisition by Amazon, Medical Device Network reported March 7.

CVS went from one store in 1963 to a $105 billion healthcare behemoth that has thousands of pharmacies, hundreds of clinics and an insurance company — and continues to grow.

Home health company Signify Health has partnered with Cardinal Health to offer home-based clinical and medication management services to patients. 

VillageMD, which is majority owned by Walgreens, has acquired a 30-location medical group in Connecticut as it continues its rapid expansion around the country.

Amazon could look to home-based care or insurance for its next move into healthcare, health system digital and innovation leaders told Becker’s.

Apple has filed a patent for a “Body ID” composition scan that could be used for health evaluations, AppleInsider reported.

The FDA has rejected a request from Elon Musk’s Neuralink to test its brain chips on humans, according to a March 2 TechCrunch story.

Best Buy has partnered with five of the 10 largest U.S. health systems on remote patient monitoring, according to a March 2 earnings call.

Greg Corrado, senior research director at Google, said the company sees healthcare as one of the greatest industries where artificial intelligence could provide real value, Politico reported March 2.