Category: Disruptors

Primary care disruptor Carbon Health has laid off more than 200 employees, CEO Eren Bali wrote on Twitter.

The former chief digital health and analytics officer of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health has joined GE’s new healthcare spinoff as its first chief technology officer.

The new year began with a bang for GE HealthCare.

Johnson & Johnson filed an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its consumer health unit, Kenvue, moving closer toward a spinoff, Bloomberg reported Jan. 4.

Google and DeepMind are lauching MedPaLM, an open-sourced large language model that exclusively addresses medical queries, Tech Times reported Jan. 4. 

Walgreens Boots Alliance reported a $3.7 billion net loss in the first quarter of the 2023 fiscal year ending Nov. 30, a significant drop from $3.6 billion in net income over the same period last year, driven by after-tax charges for opioid-related cla…

Fifty-two percent of health tech experts surveyed by Health Tech Nerds, an informational platform focusing on healthcare business, said Amazon would be the biggest threat to health systems’ core business in 2023.

Software giant Salesforce is cutting nearly 10 percent of its workforce after a COVID-19-fueled hiring boom that saw the company nearly triple its workforce in the past four years, Bloomberg reported Jan. 4.

Amazon obtained an $8 billion unsecured loan after a challenging year in 2022, according to Reuters.

Elon Musk made headlines with his acquisition of Twitter last year. But what are the odds he buys a healthcare company in 2023? And which one should it be?