Category: Disruptors

Digital health company Babylon is teaming up with Google’s Fitbit to provide Fitbit wearable devices to a subset of members for care coordination and proactive health management.

Uber Health is looking to expand its platforms as it sees an increased demand for medical device delivery services and healthcare rideshare services, Yahoo Finance reported Nov. 16. 

From inking a partnership with EHR vendor Epic to piloting its clinical search tool at two health systems, Google is continuing its push into the healthcare industry. Here are six recent healthcare moves from the company as reported by Becker’s.

Connected sleep device maker ResMed and Alphabet’s life science offshoot Verily have partnered to create Primasun, an end-to-end solution to help employers and healthcare providers identify populations at risk for complex sleep disorders.

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham and the American Hospital Association are among the organizations advising Amazon Web Services as the cloud giant opens up applications for tech solutions for overcoming healthcare burnout and other workforc…

Best Buy has made an initial investment in remote patient monitoring company Coeus h3c as the tech retailer looks to expand in the home healthcare market.

Amazon is expanding its healthcare presence with a new virtual offering called Amazon Clinic.

Google Cloud has partnered with COTA, a data and analytics company, to create algorithms that will extract and make sense of unstructured data from electronic health records.

CVS needs to continue investing in healthcare opportunities so the retail giant doesn’t fall behind Walgreens and Amazon, even if that means its earnings take a hit, The Wall Street Journal reported Nov. 10. 

CEO of Amazon Andy Jassy is conducting a cost-cutting spree to scale back on unprofitable businesses at the company, but the retailer said it is continuing to invest in healthcare, where it sees growth and potential, The Wall Street Journal reported No…