Category: Disruptors

Best Buy will begin selling over-the-counter hearing devices this fall after the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act was signed into law Aug. 16, CNBC reported Aug. 17. 

The Big Four tech companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft — are accelerating their pursuits of the healthcare market, and they’re starting to hone their strategies and stake corners within the industry. 

Kristen Helton, PhD, general manager and director of Amazon Care, is taking time away from the tech giant’s primary healthcare initiative as it acquires One Medical, Bloomberg reported Aug. 11.

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.