Amazon recently announced that it would lay off a few hundred employees at One Medical as well as switch up a leadership position, but One Medical CEO Trent Green told The Washington Post that the moves are not related to the acquisition by Amazon. 

Amgen, a biotech company, has built a $474 million facility in New Albany, Ohio, NBC affiliate WCMH reported Feb. 26.

Health system digital leaders told Becker's that Amazon's $3.9 billion deal for One Medical, which was completed one year ago this month, has already "changed the landscape" of healthcare and altered the way hospitals do business.

Healthcare lags behind other industries in its adoption of artificial intelligence, largely because it lacks training capacity, according to a study commissioned by Amazon Web Services.

GE HealthCare is partnering with health tech company Biofourmis to expand the application of patient monitoring technology from hospitals to the homes of patients.

Amazon completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of virtual and in-person primary care company One Medical on Feb. 22, 2023, and has since been expanding the company's presence in the healthcare industry.

Last March, Walmart Health said it would add 28 locations by the end of 2024 in Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and Kansas City, Mo.

Elon Musk said the first patient who implanted a Neuralink chip into their brain now has the ability to control a computer mouse just by thinking, CNBC reported Feb. 20. 

GE Healthcare and Pointcore, a healthcare management and nonclinical shared services company, entered into a partnership with Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare to help enhance clinical and operational efficiencies, standardize models for care delivery, and enhance patient outcomes.

Despite layoffs of a few hundred employees in its healthcare units, Amazon continues to hire for those businesses.

Healthcare is facing significant challenges, including rising costs, inconsistent quality and unequal access, but collaboration between retailers and health systems could be a powerful solution to tackle these issues, according to a recent Harvard Business Review article. 

Amazon is planning to close some corporate One Medical offices, as well as move its chief financial officer into a new role, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Becker's. 

From striking a partnership with Allina Health to launching a new telehealth service, here are five updates on Optum that Becker's has reported since Jan. 23: 

Google Health has a job opening for a health equity clinical specialist to serve as the company's expert in health equity and social determinants of health.

Amazon is learning that healthcare is "complicated," as one health system leader told Becker's.

Optum Ventures, the venture capital arm of Optum, backed a $70 million series B funding round for Ambience Healthcare, a company that creates AI operating systems for healthcare organizations. 

Verily, a precision health technology company owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, has named Myoung Cha as its new chief product officer.

Amazon is eliminating a few hundred roles at One Medical and in its online pharmacy unit Amazon Pharmacy, Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, confirmed to Becker's. 

Best Buy has been making big moves in healthcare, providing remote patient monitoring technology to health systems. Here are nine healthcare jobs the tech retailer is hiring for this month.

Amazon has redesigned offerings and add-ons for Amazon Prime users, including a $9 per month healthcare supplement, that can obscure the apples-to-apples value of the subscription's price tag.