Category: Disruptors

Amazon continues to grow its healthcare business, even as the tech giant pulls back in other areas.

Amazon continued a heavy push into healthcare in 2022, pledging to spend billions of dollars to advance into the sector and launching new health products (even as it discontinued others). 

Recent moves from CVS and Walgreens show that the pharmacy retail giants are making leaps into healthcare spaces they’ve never touched — but hospitals aren’t sweating yet.

Microsoft has been making headway in the healthcare industry through partnerships with hospitals and health systems.

From completing its $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance to partnering with some of the largest hospitals and health systems, Microsoft is continuing its push into the healthcare industry. 

Google has been making headway in the healthcare industry through partnerships with hospitals and health systems.

GE Healthcare is looking to cut debt, bring down costs and pursue tuck-in acquisitions after it spins off from GE in January, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 8. 

From entering into an agreement with EHR vendor Epic to helping some of the biggest health systems improve health equity through data, Google is continuing its push into the healthcare industry. 

Steven Shulman, a healthcare executive with ties to VillageMD and CareCentrix, has resigned from Walgreens’ board after a spat with other members over whether he was an independent voice, according to a securities filing.

Amazon Web Services is working with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Seattle Children’s and San Francisco-based UCSF Health to help meet the White House’s goal of finding a cure for cancer.