Category: Disruptors

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.

Corporate takeovers of primary care companies by the likes of Amazon and CVS Health are a threat to health equity, healthcare costs and clinician autonomy, researchers wrote in a recent New England Journal of Medicine commentary.

Verily, the healthcare unit of parent company Alphabet, formerly known as Google, is sunsetting some of its healthcare projects and restructuring leadership after the company announced it would layoff 15 percent of its staff, CNBC reported Jan. 11.&nbs…

Verily, the healthcare unit of parent company Alphabet, is cutting more than 200 jobs, or about 15 percent of its staff, The Wall Street Journal first reported Jan. 11.

GE HealthCare has partnered with Ordr to provide health systems with continuous network performance and security monitoring of all clinical assets.

Hospital and health system digital and innovation chiefs told Becker’s they’re excited about the potential of GE’s healthcare spinoff to advance the industry’s digital transformation and said they envision plenty of partnership opportunities.

Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business. Below are five open positions as of Jan. 10:

Primary care disruptor VillageMD, which is majority owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance, has appointed Stuart Levine, MD, as its president of value-based care.