Category: Disruptors

Claude Pirtle, MD, the former chief medical information officer of Jackson-based West Tennessee Healthcare, has been named the inaugural chief medical informatics officer of Walmart Health & Wellness, the retail giant’s health and medical arm.

Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Roz Brewer recently suggested that company may be expanding into healthcare technology, while CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch said the company is aiming to ultimately touch the “entire spectrum of someone’s health journey.”

Amazon has been advertising job openings for its various healthcare teams. Here are seven health-related jobs the tech giant recently posted.

The Justice Department has asked CVS Health for more information about its planned $8 billion acquisition of home healthcare company Signify Health, the pharmacy giant said in an Oct. 20 securities filing.

Amazon Web Services launched a new healthcare-specific accelerator aimed at reducing the effort and complexity involved in supporting healthcare compliance efforts.

Walgreens’ healthcare business, Walgreens Boots Alliance, reported better than expected fourth quarter earnings and aims to accelerate growth next year.

CVS Health wants to be in charge of the “entire spectrum of someone’s health journey,” the company’s chief executive said at an Oct. 12 event in Boston reported on by the Boston Business Journal.

CVS Health is in exclusive talks to buy Cano Health, Bloomberg reported Oct. 7.

Uber Health has partnered with healthcare workforce platform ShiftMed to provide transportation to nurses and other healthcare workers to help with staffing shortages.

Microsoft says it has an artificial intelligence tool that can predict missed healthcare appointments.