Walgreens said it plans to roll out virtual care with healthcare providers for common health needs beginning in October. 

A lawsuit has been filed against Costco that alleges the warehouse club company shared customers' protected health information with Facebook parent company Meta, The Seattle Times reported Oct. 9. 

Walmart is expanding its virtual primary care options for its employees nationwide through a partnership with Included Health.

In a bid to improve healthcare facility management and patient care, AI company Care.ai has partnered with Google Cloud to integrate its generative AI and data analytics tools into its platform.

Best Buy said it will begin to sell continuous glucose monitors.

Dollar General is setting out to close a gap in rural healthcare delivery with mobile clinics in store parking lots, an offering that raises questions for some and elicits praise from others. 

Some Medicare Advantage beneficiaries will have coverage for Uber app purchases, including rides to physician visits and healthy foods, due to a new partnership between Optum and Uber.

Amazon Prime customers looking to get a deal on healthcare will have to wait.

Unlike other healthcare disruptors, Walmart isn't partnering with hospitals and health systems. At least not yet.

Mount Sinai Solutions, a division of New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System, is partnering with Instacart to offer post-operative and post-partum patients access to groceries.

Walgreens investors and analysts like the news that the company is close to hiring a CEO with healthcare experience, Bloomberg reported.

Howard Cutler, senior vice president of payer strategies for VillageMD, has left the company for a new role at One Call. 

As Google looks to get employees back into the office, it will expand its suite of on-site wellness centers in 2024, HR Brew reported Oct. 2. 

Walgreens CIO Hsiao Wang is leaving the company just a year after being appointed to the role, Bloomberg reported Oct. 2. 

Microsoft has forged two new strategic partnerships with leading health systems — Mayo Clinic and Mercy — as it aims to use the power of generative artificial intelligence to ease healthcare's administrative burdens. 

As Costco looks to break into healthcare through a new partnership with virtual care company Sesame, Costco CFO Richard Galanti said in a Sept. 26 earnings call that raising the cost of its membership is a 'question of when, not if.'

One professor says Amazon's new ownership of a clinic that serves Hanover, N.H.-based Dartmouth College employees and their families could be the right model to "rethink" primary care, Valley News reported Sept. 27.

Hospital leaders are already taking notice of one of healthcare's newest disruptors: Uber Eats.

Disruptors are turning to virtual care offerings to make healthcare more affordable and accessible to consumers. 

Amazon is making a big bet on generative artificial intelligence — and its use in healthcare — with a $4 billion investment in AI company Anthropic.