Category: Disruptors

GE HealthCare is developing a machine learning platform that can help health systems diagnose patients and assign beds, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 16. 

Amazon is continuing its push into the healthcare space by investing in healthcare startups and making acquisitions in the primary care space. But looking closer at the investments shows that the tech giant’s new business lines primarily focus on consu…

On Feb. 8, CVS Health entered into an agreement to purchase primary care company Oak Street Health in an all-cash deal worth $10.6 billion, but some hospital and health system CIOs say this deal isn’t transformative as it isn’t big enough to “rattle” t…

CVS plans to issue bonds to help finance its planned $8 billion acquisition of home health company Signify Health, Seeking Alpha reported.

To compete with healthcare disruptors like Amazon and CVS, hospitals must partner with them and other Big Tech companies and boost convenience, access and virtual care, the American Hospital Association said in a Feb. 9 report.

Former health system executive Bryan Becker, MD, has been named national medical director of VillageMD for the Texas region.

CVS Health plans to acquire Oak Street Health in a $10.6 billion deal, which will likely close later this year.

GE HealthCare has entered into an agreement to acquire Caption Health, an artificial intelligence disease detection and ultrasound scanning company.

From growing its insurance business neary sixfold to launching an open-sourced large language model that exclusively addresses medical query, here are five healthcare moves from Google as reported by Becker’s Hospital Review since Jan. 5:

GV, the venture capital arm of Google parent company Alphabet, has invested $28.1 million in mental health startup Firsthand, Behavioral Health Business reported.