Category: Disruptors

Amazon’s plan to buy One Medical for $3.9 billion will give the retailer a larger foothold in selling healthcare services to employers, an arena the company entered in 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported July 22. 

Amazon’s cloud computing service is supporting a health tech company focused on improving health equity as part of a new initiative from the tech giant.

GV, the venture capital arm of Alphabet, spends little time focusing on direct patient care or purely technological healthcare solutions, instead concentrating on hospital infrastructure and intersections with pharma, GV venture partner Ben Robbins, MD…

Optum Health and Red Ventures partnered to launch a comprehensive consumer healthcare platform, RVO Health, according to a Moody’s Investors Service report.

CVS has appointed a new C-suite leader who will oversee the CIO and other tech leaders at the company, The Wall Street Journal reported July 8.

Amazon’s chief medical officer for new products Vin Gupta, MD, is in the lead to be the FDA’s principal medical adviser, Politico reported July 5. 

Charlie Bell helped shape Amazon’s cloud-computing service into the giant it has become today — and now leads a huge cybersecurity division for rival Microsoft, according to a recent Wall Street Journal story.

Big Tech companies including Amazon, Microsoft and Apple have continued making headway into the healthcare industry through partnerships with health systems and other organizations.

Amazon has been advertising job openings at its various healthcare businesses. Here are nine healthcare-related jobs the tech giant recently posted:

Walgreens partnered with health data company Pluto Health to launch a clinical trial business that aims to eliminate patient recruitment, diversity and enrollment challenges.