Category: Disruptors

Weeks after its $8.9 billion deal for Summit Health closed, VillageMD acquired a Dallas medical practice that includes internal medicine, geriatric and urgent care services.

Even as it has been laying off tens of thousands of employees, Amazon has pledged to continue pursuing its healthcare business.

Dollar General customers at three locations in Tennessee can now see a healthcare provider in the store’s parking lot for preventative care, urgent care and chronic condition management services.

Medtech companies Phillips and Masimo partnered to integrate Philips’ patient monitoring ecosystem into the Masimo W1 tracking watch.

As healthcare disruptors such as Optum, Walgreens and CVS look to become bigger providers of medical services, the companies are eyeing potential primary care deals and acquisitions to compete with other managed care providers and private equity firms….

Software giant Microsoft is planning to lay off 10,000 workers, or less than 5 percent of the company’s workforce, as the company looks to shift priorities amid economic uncertainty, The New York Times reported Jan. 18.

Bayer has entered into an agreement to acquire strategic imaging artificial intelligence platform and solutions provider Blackford Analysis. 

Amazon Clinic, the online healthcare service launched by Amazon in November, is now offering COVID-19 treatment plans. 

Amazon and Alphabet’s healthcare arm Verily said it would let go some of its healthcare employees as an uncertain economy has been causing financial and operational challenges for tech companies. 

The newly spun-off GE HealthCare entered into an agreement to acquire IMACTIS, a developer of CT interventional guidance technology.