Health system chief digital and innovation officers told Becker's they're impressed with Amazon's Feb. 22 purchase of One Medical and they believe it spells good things for the future of healthcare.

Amazon tech employees are urging Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to reconsider his new return-to-office mandate, CNBC reported Feb. 21. 

Facebook parent company Meta gave thousands of employees poor reviews, indicating that more layoffs could be coming after the company laid off 13 percent of its staff in November 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 17.

Amazon has completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of virtual and in-person primary care company One Medical, the retailer said Feb. 22. 

Walmart Health has named Brody McConnell as its new director of innovations.

Google Cloud is partnering with Redox, an interoperability startup founded by three former Epic engineers, to integrate health data from legacy systems into Google Cloud products. 

Apple isn't entering the primary care arena like other retail disruptors such as Amazon, CVS and Optum, instead the company is focusing on how to keep patients healthier through data, according to a Feb. 17 report from the American Hospital Association. 

The FTC is closely watching healthcare deals such as CVS' planned acquisition of Signify Health and Amazon's planned acquisition of One Medical, which could potentially delay the deals from closing, Barrons reported Feb. 16. 

Walgreens CEO Rosalind Brewer had to convince her board of her plans to shift the company's focus from retail pharmacies to medical clinics, even taking the directors on a tour of a VillageMD practice, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb 19.

Despite broader challenges in the tech industry, Amazon continues its push into healthcare. Here are six healthcare jobs the technology giant is hiring for.

Big Tech layoffs at Twitter, Amazon and Meta grabbed headlines in 2022, and the trend is continuing in 2023 as large tech firms continue to deal with an uncertain economic environment.

GE HealthCare is developing a digital health platform that brings together patient data for streamlined care and operations, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 16.

Amazon is continuing its push into the healthcare space by investing in healthcare startups and making acquisitions in the primary care space. But looking closer at the investments shows that the tech giant's new business lines primarily focus on consumer health, diagnostics and therapeutics and remote monitoring, CB Insights reported Feb. 14. 

On Feb. 8, CVS Health entered into an agreement to purchase primary care company Oak Street Health in an all-cash deal worth $10.6 billion, but some hospital and health system CIOs say this deal isn't transformative as it isn't big enough to "rattle" the provider industry. 

CVS plans to issue bonds to help finance its planned $8 billion acquisition of home health company Signify Health, Seeking Alpha reported.

To compete with healthcare disruptors like Amazon and CVS, hospitals must partner with them and other Big Tech companies and boost convenience, access and virtual care, the American Hospital Association said in a Feb. 9 report.

Former health system executive Bryan Becker, MD, has been named national medical director of VillageMD for the Texas region.

CVS Health plans to acquire Oak Street Health in a $10.6 billion deal, which will likely close later this year.

GE HealthCare has entered into an agreement to acquire Caption Health, an artificial intelligence disease detection and ultrasound scanning company.

From launching open source tools for digital health app builders to creating a new search function that identifies low-cost care options, Google is continuing its push into the healthcare industry. Here are three recent healthcare moves from the company as reported by Becker's since March 14: