Category: Disruptors

Sony has partnered with hearing aid manufacturing company WS Audiology Denmark to create an over-the-counter hearing device. 

Amazon will lay off 159 Amazon Care employees starting Dec. 1, CNBC reported Sept. 9. 

Google’s deep learning technology can detect tuberculosis on par with real-life radiologists, according to a Sept. 6 study in the journal Radiology.

A former technical advisor at Amazon, Filiz Genca, joined digital healthcare staffing company CareRev as chief operating officer. 

Several healthcare executives and leaders at Amazon and Google have stepped down, left the company or taken a break from their positions in 2022. 

With the news that CVS has agreed to acquire home healthcare provider Signify Health for $8 billion, the pharmacy giant has made it clear that it intends to disrupt the healthcare industry. The company hopes to make doctors making house calls as ubiqui…

Amazon Care, the company’s in-person and virtual primary care services, abruptly closed, leaving employees of Amazon surprised as the human resource department promoted the service as an employee benefit the same week it shut down, The Washington Post …

CVS Health entered into a definitive agreement Sept .5 to acquire Signify Health, a home health company, for about $8 billion.

Big Tech companies including Amazon, Google and Microsoft been making headway in the healthcare industry through partnerships with hospitals and health systems.

Amazon revealed plans to shutter Amazon Care in an Aug. 24 letter to Amazon Health Services employees. But that doesn’t mean the end of healthcare services from the nearly $470 billion technology behemoth.