Category: Disruptors

From the departure of PillPack co-founders to losing its manager of healthcare, Amazon has lost several executives leading its various healthcare ventures.

Fujifilm is acquiring Inspirata, a Florida-based digital pathology business.

Google is working to develop an AI-based tool that can read prescriptions made in physicians’ handwriting, TheVerge reported Dec. 19. 

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.