Category: Disruptors

Samsung has partnered with developer of patient-facing virtual assistant tools IntelliTek Health to bring artificial intelligence and digital voice assistance to the post-discharge process. 

Microsoft is doubling down on its healthcare artificial intelligence investments with two new partnerships.

Walmart and Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health are partnering to try to improve maternal health among Black women in Georgia.

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.